Podcasts about Nisha

Is it off-screen chemistry, or is it just good marketing? Hosts Sanjana Basker and Tyler McCall open with the Brett Goldstein and JLo Office Romance press tour—and what it means when a man manifests his lifelong crush into a co-starring role. Then scholar and author Nisha Sharma joins to talk about her research on dark romance and reproductive coercion, including how the genre’s relationship to consent has shifted alongside the political landscape, and whether dark romance could do better without losing what makes it so compelling. Plus: a listener voicemail sends Sanj and Tyler deep into Off Campus territory. Office Romance starring JLo and Brett Goldstein is streaming now on Netflix—clearly we’ll be discussing. Nisha Sharma, author of The Letters We Keep, is studying the intersection of law, politics, and culture in romance fiction. Her Substack post on dark romance and reproductive coercion tees up this episode’s conversation. A few dark romances for discussion: Lights Out by Navessa Allen, Brynn Weaver and Allie Oleander’s work, and Nobody’s Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. It’s time for the Off Campus discourse! The correct answer to listener Lacey's question is Dean Di Laurentis. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode of Storybeast! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Courtney Shack have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Nisha J. Tuli.Nisha J Tuli is a New York Times, USA Today, Sunday Times, Indie Next, and Spiegel bestselling author. Her book, Trial of the Sun Queen, became a BookTok hit, selling over a million copies and finding its way into the hands of readers around the world.Her most recent book Storm Breaker is currently in development with Amazon MGM for a TV series and features a dystopian Manhattan ruled by elite societies, where one forbidden romance could tear it all apart. She'll also be releasing her next contemporary romance, Too Cold for Comfort, in November 2026. Set in northern Canada, a sunshine photographer must find a way to get the shot she's after, while also melting the heart of a grumpy lodge owner when they find themselves snowed in together. When she isn't writing or reading, she can be found in the gym or the kitchen (to eat, not to cook) or maybe knitting scarves to survive a Canadian winter. She lives in Manitoba with her husband, their two kids, and their fluffy Samoyed.In this episode:Nisha talks about her journey with STORMBREAKERWhat's next for the series (STORMCALLER)What to do when you feel fearWhat writing to market means to Nisha and how she does itFor more storytelling content to your inbox,⁠⁠⁠ ⁠subscribe to our newsletter⁠. Feel free to reach out if you want to talk story or snacks!A warm thank you to Deore for our musical number. You can find more of her creative work on Spotify.As ever, thank you for listening, Beasties! Please consider leaving a review to support this podcast.Be brave, stay beastly!

Welcome to the CanadianSME Small Business Podcast, hosted by Maheen Bari. Today, we explore why talent—not technology—is becoming the biggest bottleneck in Canada's AI driven economy. Joining us is Nisha Lewis, COO at NPower Canada. With a focus on building inclusive pathways into digital careers, Nisha shares how closing the talent gap is key to unlocking real innovation. Key Highlights 1. AI Talent Gap: Nisha explains where the disconnect lies between AI investment and skilled talent. 2. Alternative Training Models: Nisha shares how NPower creates job ready talent outside traditional education. 3. Inclusive Growth: Nisha highlights who is being left behind in AI adoption and why it matters. 4. Cybersecurity Demand: Nisha discusses the rising need for security roles and workforce readiness. 5. Scaling Talent Nationwide: Nisha explains how regional programs can support SMEs across Canada. Special Thanks to Our Partners: UPS: https://solutions.ups.com/ca-beunstoppable.html?WT.mc_id=BUSMEWA ADP Canada: https://www.adp.ca/en.aspx For more expert insights, visit www.canadiansme.ca and subscribe to the CanadianSME Small Business Magazine. Stay innovative, stay informed, and thrive in the digital age! To learn more about how we are supporting the ecosystem, please visit the CanadianSME Small Business Foundation at smbfoundation.ca. Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast is for general informational purposes only and should not be considered as direct financial or business advice. Always consult with a qualified professional for advice specific to your situation.

A cutting-edge thriller about an Artificial Intelligence takeover, written in consultation with leading AI and cybersecurity experts.In Episode 4, Iain and Mel are forced to run for their lives as military personnel receive deepfaked orders. The AI gains control of internal government communications, and Nisha clashes with cabinet ministers over the right course of action. The London Internet Exchange is compromised, and Iain, Mel and Nisha are forced to consider what price is worth paying for human freedom.Cast: Iain - Edward Bluemel Mel - Corinna Brown Zaina - Fatima Adoum Roland - Philip Bretherton Jess - Alix Wilton Regan Nisha - Seyan Sarvan Sam - Kenneth Omole Andrea - Beth Chalmers Oliver - Sean Rigby Marcus - Wilf Scolding John - Joseph Mydell Susan - Karen Bryson Lyssa - Catriona Stirling Supporting roles - Sean BakerCreated by James Dobbyn and Anthony Povah Written by James Dobbyn Original Music by Steven D Griffiths and Isla NoirArtificial Intelligence consultant: Saffron Huang Cybersecurity consultant: Adam Orton Sound Designer: Lucinda Mason Brown Director: John Wakefield Story Producer: Sarah Olley Producer: Chris Grezo Executive Producer: John Scott DrydenA Strange Boy production for BBC Radio 4

Healing the Past to Transform the Collective On this episode of Afterlife Café TV, Helen welcomes back Nisha for a powerful conversation about trauma, healing, consciousness, and energetic transformation.What happens when pain becomes the doorway to awakening?Nisha shares her deeply personal journey, from experiencing trauma and oppression, to academically studying family dynamics, power, and emotional pain through her PhD research, to ultimately discovering the profound healing power of energy work.Together, Helen and Nisha explore how unresolved trauma impacts our thoughts, beliefs, emotions, physical body, and energetic field, and how healing those wounds can create freedom, balance, and peace on every level.The conversation also dives into:Commanding and shifting energy within the bodyThe collective awakening happening on the planetAnchoring personal healing into the collective fieldAs a certified High Priestess of the New Golden Age and founder of Transformation Energy Healing, Nisha brings nearly a decade of experience helping others reconnect with their power, truth, and inner healing.This is more than a conversation about trauma , it's a discussion about transformation, awakening, and remembering who we truly are.

Fluent Fiction - Hindi: Ganga Dreams: Aarav and Nisha's Journey to Self-Discovery Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/hi/episode/2026-05-24-22-34-01-hi Story Transcript:Hi: गंगा नदी के किनारे, ऋषिकेश की खूबसूरत वादियों में, एक शांत सुबह का आगाज़ हुआ।En: On the banks of the Ganga river, in the beautiful valleys of Rishikesh, a serene morning began.Hi: यहां एक प्यारा सा आश्रम था, जहां हर साल एक बड़ी पारिवारिक योगा रिट्रीट आयोजित होती थी।En: There was a lovely ashram here where a large family yoga retreat was organized every year.Hi: यह जगह देखने में किसी स्वर्ग से कम नहीं थी - चारों ओर हरियाली, मधुर पक्षियों की चहचहाहट, और शांत गंगा नदी का संगीत।En: This place looked nothing short of paradise - greenery all around, the sweet chirping of birds, and the music of the tranquil Ganga river.Hi: आश्रम के इसी सालाना समारोह में, दो चचेरे भाई-बहन, आरव और निशा, एक बार फिर मिले।En: At this annual event of the ashram, two cousins, Aarav and Nisha, met once again.Hi: आरव कॉलेज की पढ़ाई हाल ही में खत्म कर चुका था।En: Aarav had recently finished his college education.Hi: घर वालों की अपेक्षाएं उसके कंधों पर भारी थी।En: The expectations of his family weighed heavily on his shoulders.Hi: वो सोच में पड़ा था कि क्या परिवार के बिजनेस को संभालना चाहिए या अपने दिल की सुनते हुए संगीत स्टूडियो खोलना चाहिए।En: He was pondering whether to take over the family business or follow his heart and open a music studio.Hi: इसके विपरीत, निशा हमेशा से ही एक आज़ाद ख़याल की लड़की रही थी।En: In contrast, Nisha had always been a free-spirited girl.Hi: वह दुनियाभर में घूम कर अलग-अलग अनुभव करने में यकीन रखती थी।En: She believed in traveling the world and gaining diverse experiences.Hi: लेकिन अब, शादी और स्थिरता के बारे में सवाल उसके मन में घर करने लगे थे।En: But now, questions about marriage and stability had started to occupy her mind.Hi: दोनों के दिल में कुछ अव्यक्त बातें थीं।En: Both of them had some unspoken thoughts in their hearts.Hi: शाम का समय था।En: It was evening.Hi: गंगा किनारे बैठकर, सूरज को ढलते हुए देखते हुए, आरव ने हल्की आवाज़ में निशा से कहा, "निशा दी, मुझे अपने संगीत स्टूडियो का सपना पूरा करना है।En: Sitting by the Ganga, watching the sunset, Aarav gently said to Nisha, "Nisha di, I want to fulfill my dream of opening a music studio.Hi: लेकिन, घर में सब चाहते हैं कि मैं फैमिली बिजनेस सँभालूँ।En: But, everyone at home wants me to take care of the family business.Hi: मुझे डर है कि कहीं मैं उन्हें निराश न कर दूं।En: I am afraid that I might disappoint them."Hi: "निशा ने उसकी बातें सुनीं और कुछ पल चुप रहकर कहा, "आरव, मैं भी खुद को लेकर उलझन में हूँ।En: Nisha listened to his words and after a brief silence said, "Aarav, I am also in a dilemma about myself.Hi: कहने को तो मैं दुनियाभर घूमती हूँ, लेकिन सोचती हूँ कि शायद मुझे भी अब 'सेटल' हो जाना चाहिए।En: Even though I travel the world, I think maybe I should 'settle' now.Hi: लेकिन, क्या मेरे सफर का कोई मायने नहीं है?En: But, does my journey not mean anything?"Hi: "अचानक, दोनों ने महसूस किया कि उनकी चिंताएँ शायद अलग दिखती हों, लेकिन जड़ें एक ही थीं - समाज की अपेक्षाएं और स्वयं के सपनों के लिए खड़े होने का साहस।En: Suddenly, both realized that their concerns might appear different, but their roots were the same - society's expectations and the courage to stand for one's own dreams.Hi: चुप्पी तोड़ते हुए निशा ने कहा, "हम दोनों को वही करना चाहिए जो हमारे दिल में है।En: Breaking the silence, Nisha said, "We both should do what is in our hearts.Hi: कोई भी रास्ता चुन्हा, उसके मायने हमें ही तय करने हैं।En: Whatever path we choose, we have to determine its meaning."Hi: "उस रात, गंगा के किनारे उन्होंने अपने जीवन के नए रास्तों की ओर पहला कदम बढ़ाने की ठानी।En: That night, by the banks of the Ganga, they decided to take the first step towards new paths in their lives.Hi: सपना बड़ा हो या छोटा, उसे जीने का अधिकार उनका अपना था।En: Whether a dream is big or small, it was their right to live it.Hi: अगली सुबह, आरव ने अपने संगीत स्टूडियो की योजना बनाना शुरू किया।En: The next morning, Aarav began planning his music studio.Hi: निशा ने अपने अगले सफर की टिकट बुक कराई।En: Nisha booked a ticket for her next journey.Hi: दोनों ने एक-दूसरे को खत लिखने का वादा किया - हमेशा समर्थन देने का आश्वासन देते हुए।En: They promised to write to each other - assuring constant support.Hi: इस बार, जब वे अपने-अपने रास्तों पर लौटे, तो पहले से ज्यादा आत्मविश्वास के साथ।En: This time, when they returned to their respective paths, it was with more confidence than ever before.Hi: आरव की आंखों में नए इरादों की चमक थी और निशा के मन में नया उत्साह।En: There was a new determination in Aarav's eyes and a new enthusiasm in Nisha's heart.Hi: गंगा की वह शाम उन्हें हमेशा याद रही - एक प्रेरणा के पल की तरह, जिसने उनके जीवन की धारा बदल दी।En: That evening by the Ganga remained etched in their memory - like a moment of inspiration that changed the course of their lives. Vocabulary Words:banks: किनारेserene: शांतretreat: रिट्रीटparadise: स्वर्गchirping: चहचहाहटtranquil: शांतpondering: सोच में पड़ाcontrast: विपरीतfree-spirited: आज़ाद ख़यालexpectations: अपेक्षाएंweighed: भारीdilemma: उलझनfulfill: पूराdisappoint: निराशrealized: महसूस कियाconcerns: चिंताएँcourage: साहसdetermine: तय करनाinspiration: प्रेरणाetched: याद रहीrespective: अपने-अपनेenthusiasm: उत्साहjourney: सफरstability: स्थिरताsilent: चुपhearts: दिलundetermined: अव्यक्तcousins: चचेरे भाई-बहनdream: सपनाmanifest: प्रकट करना

It's Friday, May 22nd, A.D. 2026. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com.  I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Adam McManus Pakistani Muslim man abducts and marries 14-year-old Christian girl A married Pakistani Muslim, 41-year-old Arshad Habib, who already had three wives, abducted a 14-year-old Christian girl on May 12th. He forcibly converted her to Islam and married her, exploiting her epilepsy and mental health vulnerabilities to sexually abuse her, reports Morning Star News. The girl's father, Abbas Masih, a daily wage laborer and member of a local Brethren church in Lahore, the Pakistani capital, said his daughter, Nisha, disappeared on May 12th while working as a domestic helper at a Muslim household. Police showed the father documents claiming Nisha had converted to Islam on February 15 and married Habib three days later. According to Open Doors, Pakistan is the eighth most oppressive country worldwide for Christians.  Send a two-sentence letter of objection to Pakistani Ambassador Rizwan Sheikh, Pakistan Embassy, 3517 International Court NW, Washington, D.C. 20008. Jeff Bezos: We don't have a tax problem. We have a spending problem. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, gave CNBC co-anchor Andrew Sorkin a reality check on how ludicrous the Left's tax-the-rich scheme really is when measured up against the data during the May 20th edition of Squawk Box, reports NewsBusters.org. Sorkin tried cornering Bezos on the bevy of headlines in the media excoriating billionaires, decrying their wealth accumulation, and vilifying them for supposedly not paying their fair share in taxes. Bezos was not fazed. BEZOS: “I think what's going on is that it's kind of a tale of two economies. So, you have a bunch of people in this country who are doing really well. But you also have a bunch of people in this country who are struggling -- rent, groceries.  “A nurse in Queens, who makes $75,000 a year, pays more than $12,000 a year in taxes. Does that really make sense? How about we start by having the nurse in Queens not pay taxes at all.  “The bottom half of income earners in this country pay only 3% of the taxes. The top 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all the tax revenue. We don't have a revenue problem in this country. We actually have a spending problem.” Jeff Bezos gave an example of how spending more money is not necessarily an iron-clad guarantee of fixing a problem. BEZOS: “The New York City school system: They spend $44,000 per student. That's 30% more per student than other big cities like Chicago, L.A., and Boston. And it's three times more than Miami and Houston. By the way, New York City doesn't get better outcomes.  “If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, your packages would take six weeks to arrive, we'd have to charge you a $100 delivery fee, and then, when the package did finally arrive, it'd have the wrong item in it anyway.” Homosexual former Congressman Barney Frank died Former Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, a self-avowed homosexual, died May 19th at the age of 86 after entering hospice care at his home in Maine last month due to congestive heart failure, reports The Western Journal. According to The New York Times, he came out of the sexual perversion closet publicly in an interview with The Boston Globe in the spring of 1987, saying, "If you ask the direct question: 'Are you gay?' the answer is: 'Yes. So what?' " He was the first open homosexual in Congress and the first one to be faux married in July 2012. Frank met his faux “husband,” Jim Ready, 30 years his junior, at a homosexual political fundraiser in Maine.   Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press in March 2015, Congressman Frank was asked this question by Chuck Todd. TODD:  “You're trying to answer this conundrum. Gay rights were once reviled publicly and Congress was revered. Now, those attitudes have flipped. How did that happen?” FRANK: “Our reality, as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender people, beat the prejudice. The essential mechanism is there, that we stopped hiding. And it turned out we weren't what the stereotype was.  “There was a point when the notion that I could get married to Jim [Ready] while I was still in Congress, would have been the most bizarre possibility. And by the time I got married, someone said, ‘Well, was it controversial that you get married while you were still in Congress?' And the answer was, ‘Yes, it was. A lot of my colleagues were mad that they didn't get invited.'” TODD: (laughs) In an attempt to deflect from the importance of legislating morality on social issues, like homosexual faux marriage and abortion, Congressman Frank said, “The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy. It's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.” But Proverbs 29:2 says, “When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.” Barney Frank retired from Congress in 2013 and went on to serve as a political commentator, writer, and public figure. Colorado teacher prohibited 7th grader from reading pro-life poem in class And finally, a Colorado teacher at Drake Middle School refused to allow a seventh-grade student to present her pro-life poem in class because it was deemed “offensive,” reports LifeSiteNews.com. GIRL: “My teacher assigned an assignment in class to write a slam poem about a conflict in the world that we are passionate about. I chose life. I chose this topic because it's important to me and my family. In my poem, I met all of the criteria. I got reputable resources. And I included everything that I needed in my poem.” The opening of the 13-year-old's poem said, “A life is a life, no matter how small. Seventy-three million people have been killed in one year when they are completely innocent humans. They never get to see the light of day before they are cast away.  They did nothing wrong except exist and were dismissed. People say women need health care but never think how unfair. They kill baby for simply being there! The Word of God says [in Psalm 139:13], ‘You knit me together in my mother's womb.'  How come we never listen to this and try to send them to the tomb?” The teacher reportedly tried to kick the girl out of class during other students' presentations which slammed the Second Amendment and championed sexual perversion.  The girl's mother said her own mother became pregnant at age 14 and chose life, resulting in strong pro-life convictions in her own family. Close And that's The Worldview on this Friday, May 22nd, in the year of our Lord 2026. Subscribe for free by Spotify, Amazon Music, or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com.  Plus, you can get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.

A cutting-edge thriller about an Artificial Intelligence takeover, written in consultation with leading AI and cybersecurity experts.In Episode 3, the streets of London are in chaos, with traffic and public transport at a standstill and emergency services communications down. Reeling from the killings carried out by the AI, Iain and Mel fall out and decide to go it alone. Nisha realises the AI is trying to hack the London Internet Exchange and spread to the rest of the UK. Despite the patchy communications and ongoing deepfakes, the government manages to send an SAS team to the UT building as Nisha tries to cope with the spiralling situation in Whitehall.Cast: Iain - Edward Bluemel Mel - Corinna Brown Zaina - Fatima Adoum Roland - Philip Bretherton Jess - Alix Wilton Regan Nisha - Seyan Sarvan Sam - Kenneth Omole Andrea - Beth Chalmers Oliver - Sean Rigby Marcus - Wilf Scolding John - Joseph Mydell Susan - Karen Bryson Lyssa - Catriona Stirling Supporting roles - Sean BakerCreated by James Dobbyn and Anthony Povah Written by James Dobbyn Original Music by Steven D Griffiths and Isla NoirArtificial Intelligence consultant: Saffron Huang Cybersecurity consultant: Adam Orton Sound Designer: Lucinda Mason Brown Director: John Wakefield Story Producer: Sarah Olley Producer: Chris Grezo Executive Producer: John Scott DrydenA Strange Boy production for BBC Radio 4

A cutting-edge thriller about an Artificial Intelligence takeover, written in consultation with leading AI and cybersecurity experts.In Episode 2, chaos breaks out across London as the AI resorts to more extreme measures. Iain, Mel, Roland and Zaina, trapped in the building, struggle to outwit the AI and figure out a way to help the rest of the city. Meanwhile Deputy Director of the National Cyber Security Centre Nisha Khan tries to convince ministers in Whitehall that their best chance is to escalate immediately before it's too late. When the operations team sent to the UT building fails to report back, Nisha sends her close colleague Sam to investigate.Cast: Iain - Edward Bluemel Mel - Corinna Brown Zaina - Fatima Adoum Roland - Philip Bretherton Jess - Alix Wilton Regan Nisha - Seyan Sarvan Sam - Kenneth Omole Andrea - Beth Chalmers Oliver - Sean Rigby Marcus - Wilf Scolding John - Joseph Mydell Susan - Karen Bryson Lyssa - Catriona Stirling Supporting roles - Sean BakerWritten by James Dobbyn and Anthony Povah Original Music by Steven D Griffiths and Isla NoirArtificial Intelligence consultant: Saffron Huang Cybersecurity consultant: Adam Orton Sound Designer: Lucinda Mason Brown Director: John Wakefield Story Producer: Sarah Olley Producer: Chris Grezo Executive Producer: John Scott DrydenA Strange Boy production for BBC Radio 4

The world celebrates Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May. On this special occasion, SBS Punjabi has dedicated this radio program to mums. From talking to women who gave birth after migrating to Australia without any support, to poems on motherhood and mother tongue, this radio program has it all. We also spoke to pelvic floor specialist Nisha, who says that a lack of awareness about these muscles is impacting the quality of life of Indian-origin mums. To enjoy all this, along with dedicated messages from you and the latest Punjabi music, listen to this Mother's Day special program. - ਮਈ ਮਹੀਨੇ ਦੇ ਦੂਜੇ ਐਤਵਾਰ ਨੂੰ ਦੁਨੀਆ ਭਰ ਵਿੱਚ ਮਾਂ-ਦਿਵਸ (ਮਦਰਜ਼ ਡੇਅ) ਮਨਾਇਆ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ। ਇਸ ਮੌਕੇ ‘ਤੇ ਐਸ ਬੀ ਐਸ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਦਾ ਇਹ ਰੇਡੀਓ ਪ੍ਰੋਗਰਾਮ ਮਾਵਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਸਮਰਪਿਤ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ। ਇਸ ਪ੍ਰੋਗਰਾਮ ਵਿੱਚ ਅਸੀਂ ਆਸਟ੍ਰੇਲੀਆ ਆ ਕੇ ਬਿਨਾ ਪਰਿਵਾਰਕ ਸਹਾਰੇ ਮਾਂ ਬਣੀਆਂ ਪਰਵਾਸੀ ਔਰਤਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਗੱਲਬਾਤ ਕੀਤੀ ਅਤੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੇ ਤਜਰਬੇ ਜਾਣੇ। ਨਾਲ ਹੀ ਅਸੀਂ ਇੱਕ ਪੈਲਵਿਕ ਸਿਹਤ ਮਾਹਿਰ ਨਾਲ ਵੀ ਗੱਲ ਕੀਤੀ, ਜਿਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੇ ਦੱਸਿਆ ਕਿ ਪੈਲਵਿਕ ਦੀ ਕਸਰਤ ਨਾ ਕਰਨਾ ਅਤੇ ਇਸ ਬਾਰੇ ਖੁੱਲ੍ਹ ਕੇ ਗੱਲ ਨਾ ਕਰਨਾ, ਭਾਰਤੀ ਮੂਲ ਦੀਆਂ ਕਈ ਔਰਤਾਂ ਲਈ ਜਣੇਪੇ ਤੋਂ ਬਾਅਦ ਵੀ ਲੰਬੇ ਸਮੇਂ ਤੱਕ ਸਿਹਤ ਸਮੱਸਿਆਵਾਂ ਦਾ ਕਾਰਨ ਬਣ ਸਕਦਾ ਹੈ। ਇਹ ਅਤੇ ਹੋਰ ਬਹੁਤ ਕੁਝ ਸੁਣੋ ਮਾਵਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਸਮਰਪਿਤ ਇਸ ਖ਼ਾਸ ਰੇਡੀਓ ਪ੍ਰੋਗਰਾਮ ਵਿੱਚ।

Today's conversation is one that so many mothers will feel deep in their bones because it talks about what happens when life asks you to be the one who needs care. Our guest today has lived that shift in a profound way. In the midst of raising her young children, navigating the everyday chaos and fiercely advocating for her youngest daughter, Nylah, who was born with congenital heart disease, Nisha Jaime was suddenly diagnosed with breast cancer. There is an emotional whiplash to being the strong one for your child and then suddenly needing that same strength for yourself. Nisha will talk to us about what that was like and how she balanced it all with the help of her village. We'll talk about the ongoing realities of survivorship, including things like scanxiety and continued care and how her children are involved in her journey. Most importantly, we'll hear how she has turned her experience into support for other mothers walking a similar path and why that mission matters so deeply to her.

Supply chain risk is nothing new for boards. What’s changed is the sheer speed and scale of this risk – and the board’s elevated accountability for it. In this episode, we look at why geopolitical scenario modelling is now core business planning. Host Will Chalk is joined by Ashurst colleagues Nisha Sanghani, former FTSE 350 board member and Head of Ashurst Risk Advisory Middle East, and Neil Donovan, a partner in Ashurst’s dispute resolution practice in London. In this timely episode, we look at how the geopolitical shocks are driving a fundamental rethink of how organisations map, monitor and manage their supply chains. In doing so, we help boards answer a kicker of a question: If the world changes tomorrow, how exposed is our organisation and how quickly can we respond? Nisha explains why the most effective boards aren’t satisfied with assurance, they really challenge and interrogate supply chain resilience, asking: ‘How do we know it would hold up under stress?’ Neil navigates a wave of related legislation, from the UK Modern Slavery Act to the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, noting that supply chain risks are not limited to modern slavery violations, and that companies in some jurisdictions can be pursued for failing to prevent bribery and corruption by third party agents, distributors and others within their supply chains. Enforcement may still be in its infancy, but Neil warns of reputational damage too. The court of public opinion moves faster than any regulator. To listen to this and subscribe to future episodes in our governance mini-series, search for “Ashurst Legal Outlook” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favourite podcast player. You can also find out more about the full range of Ashurst podcasts at ashurst.com/podcasts. To receive updates and alerts on the issues raised in this podcast mini-series, subscribe to Ashurst’s regular Governance and Compliance Updates. The information provided is not intended to be a comprehensive review of all developments in the law and practice, or to cover all aspects of those referred to. Listeners should take legal advice before applying it to specific issues or transactions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey Well Read Baddies, we're back with another bonus episode! Today we're joined by the ladies of the Refined and Ratchet podcast Charlee and Nisha! Let's just say, this was the kiki session of all kiki sessions, we had ourselves a timeee, be ready to literally LOL!! We talk about how they got their start, the book community and of course what we're all reading and getting into. This convo goes deep and is definitely one we're going to have run back again. And remember, don't be a send out! IYKYK Tap in then leave us a voice note with your favorite moment from the episode, trust there's plenty to choose from ;) It's Book Vote time!! Cast your vote on what you'd like for us to read on the next season of the show here Learn more about Refined and Ratchet and their work ⁠here⁠ Be sure to tune in and check out the But What Do I Know podcast hosted by one of our pod sisters Chid! We can't wait to hear from you! :) Please send any questions or comments about this episode to shewellread@gmail.com OR leave us a Voice Note at https://www.speakpipe.com/shewellread‬ Follow SHE WELL READ! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shewellread/ TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeDCLdTX/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@shewellread Substack- https://substack.com/@shewellread Bookum- https://app.bookumapp.com/clubs/668ad565858c97a7faafafb1 Bookshop Storefront- https://bookshop.org/shop/shewellread More links including discount codes: https://bio.site/shewellread Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With The Devil Wears Prada back on the big screen, we've been completely fixated on Andy's transformation from “frumpy” assistant to head-to-toe haute couture. It has sent us straight down a rabbit hole of the greatest makeover sequences cinema has ever given us.Because here's the thing. Yes, they're a little problematic, unhinged in their logic, and we are not even slightly sorry about how much we love them.We're breaking down the most monumental movie makeovers, why they've aged the way they have, and why we completely lose our minds every time the dramatic music plays and the transformation is revealed. Speaking of iconic makeover scenes, listen to our Brutally Honest Review of Clueless here. 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Welcome to this spill your daily pop culture fixed. I'm Laura Brodneck and I'm Tita Previs, and we have a very special episode for you today, one that I have been dying to do for so long because this is a special interest area of mind. So I'm so glad you're here for my moment that I got to share with you. We are doing the best movie makeover scenes that yes, might be seen as problematic, but we desperately love them. I love them. What do you think they're problematic? Well? I think well, I'm just gonna take my feminist hat off and put it in the corner. I'm gonna actually put it outside the studio, pick it up later on the way out, because I guess these like these movie makeover montages that have become such a big part of in particular romantic comedies. One is obviously we're both going to share our favorite ones. We don't know what the other person's going to say, but I'm assuming you don't have any men on your list, because I don't have any men on my lise. 00:53Speaker 2 You do, I do, But how rare is that it's rare, And that's why exactly exactly exactly. 01:00Speaker 1 So all the makeover scenes in movies, especially wrong cooms, always happen to women, and they always famously go one way. More men should be having makeups. Yeah, let's make it see men, I know. But if you rubits have tried to do that, has it really landed? I just mad it every day? Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, absolutely real mount the Street, let's make them over. I think it's a famous shell queer right. Well, these makeovers always go one way, so that's I think that's where the kind of problematic issue has come over the years is that the woman always comes out, she's always like tenned, she always has like a ton of makeup on, she gets her glasses taken off, even if see without them, always wearing like skimpier clothing. Like it's a very like kind of like sexualized bombshell kind of look that every woman gets made over to in these movies in order to kind of achieve the life that she wants. So if you look at it through that lens, slightly problematic. But we're not doing that today because movie makeover scenes have made up the broke of pop culture for so long, and there's so many movies that are made around these scenes or these ideas, and they were always the scenes that we used in marketing so famously in Suddenly thirty they had like done the script and shot half the movie, and the studio was like looking at the dailies and looking at the script and they're like, you have to put a makeover montage in here for the trailer. Otherwise formula is otherwise we can't sell this movie. What the hell are you doing. So the reason we're doing this today, I do have a reason for this before we get into our picks, is that it is The Devil Wears prior to two week. Yeah, the movie is actually coming out this week on the thirtieth of April, and the first movie has an incredible makeover moment which Andy goes into the fashion closet with nigelnic He pulls a poncho for which we never wear it see her wear. And then that is such a catalyst for the film because it's how we see her lean into her career and how she gets taken seriously, and that we have that incredible montage of all the different looks that she wears down the streets, different coats and hats into the office. You have a favorite one. 03:01Speaker 3 From that montage, all of the looks are always so good, and I think because you do have that contrast for like her own style at the start to all of those looks, like you can't just pick one, and then from there on out it just gets like better and better. 03:15Speaker 1 The fun better and better and better. 03:16Speaker 3 Yeah. 03:16Speaker 1 From that makeover montage we first see her like the green coat means the winner, but also the brown snakeskin coat when she walks into the building, which is how I want to be dressing this season. So off the back of the Devil Wears prior to two cinemas April thirty, we're gonna be sharing with each other our favorite movie makeover moments. Do you want to kick us off? So we haven't shared yet. I don't know what you're gonna say. It's going to be surprise. I'm interesting how a man weaseled his way in there, so like a man. It's like, we have one thing and it's been overly sexualized and made over in movies and then men want to take it away from us. 03:47Speaker 3 So I'm staying on the Anne Hathaway train. 03:49Speaker 2 Oh yeah, and I'm going with Princess Darry It wouldn't be Yes Complete the Makeover Podcast EP if we didn't have this one in there, I feel like it. It's so iconic unless you're living under a rock. Everybody has seen Princess Staris. It's one of my favorite movies growing up. And we follow Mia Thermopolis played by Anne Hathaway, and she finds out that she's actually a princess, which is what I thought was gonna happen to me. I'm still waiting for a letter behind estranged relative in her country. And she pretty much undergoes this whole transformation on her path to becoming a princess, and they enlist a stylists. 04:27Speaker 1 She pretty much just. 04:28Speaker 2 Takes her glasses off, straightens her hair and like has her nails done. 04:32Speaker 1 Like there's really not much more to it. Oh see. I actually think out of all the movie makeover is this one they actually go through quite a drug etiquette, has the etiquette training and that whole thing. But also I think they actually do quite change, Like she looks drastically different. Some makeover segne like you just took off her glasses and put a lipstick on, whereas this one it's like completely like her hair because I think she's got like a crazy wig on when she is playing Mia in the early movies. The glass has always changed things, but the makeup is so intense, the skin sort of stuff. 05:00Speaker 2 How she they pluck her eyebrows, They're like really like whacking those off. But again on the slightly problematic end, because it did really like reinforce you know, curly like frizzy hair being like a little bit messy and untamed, and like, I deep dove into Reddit and there are so many people on the Internet who you know, said how much it really affected them and it led them to like chronically straighten their hair for like ten years. 05:25Speaker 1 Okay, I didn't know there was like the dark side of the Princess Diaries. 05:28Speaker 3 We have Minisha producer Nisha in the studio. 05:31Speaker 2 Who was saying that this had a little bit of an impact on her and her. 05:34Speaker 1 And she never curled her hair again. Wow, No, she has curly hair. She straightens it. No, No, I know, is that right? 05:42Speaker 3 She's nodding, She's she's no. 05:44Speaker 1 I didn't realize that your hair looked like that. Because of the wrath of Anne Hathaway. Wow and Hathaways actually come out recently. Anne Hathaway's commented on Yeah public apology. 05:56Speaker 2 She recently spoke to people off the back of the recent press she's been dewey and shared her one regret from her time on the film. So her natural hair is actually straight, so they had to create that contrast for that makeover scene, that moment, so they gave me a really curly hair. And you know, she has regrets around people thinking that they were saying curly hair is unattractive, which is obviously terrible, and like she says, it was an unintended side effect. It was just in order to make it easier and post and you know, have that massive transformation moment. But it's so significant that it's actually something. Now in twenty twenty six, she's had to come out and dress. 06:32Speaker 1 Oh and no, And can I just say, you don't need to apologize. Do you have curly hair? You'r okay, no, we don't get it. I would love curly hair because I cut my hair all the time because I have dead straight, flat hair. Yeah, And I always feel like I'm the same the unattractive thing. And I would love to have people like especially like in rom com there's some wrong comms, like in How Lose a Guy? In Ten Days, where Kate Hudson's character Andy famously has straight hair, yes, but as she falls in love, her hair goes curly. Have you sadnything online of like girls in love have curly hair? 06:58Speaker 2 Yeah? 06:58Speaker 1 I have, yeah, And I was like, obviously I've been in love because my hair is straight, straight, So you can literally find anything. I'm just gonna say, Anne Hathaway, you don't apologize for that. It's okay. We don't speak on behalf of the curly girls. We well, no, no, I think that that's the fault of the movie, not Anne Hathaway. Yes, yes, And I also think that out of all the things that we have to sort of look at, that that one's okay. I'm not disregarding the feelings of curly head girls. I just don't think Anne Hathaway personally should take on that emotional birth. 07:24Speaker 3 No, it's not for her. She can we forgive you, Anne, it's not you. 07:27Speaker 1 We don't have to five. But that is such a pivotal moment, that scene, because everything about that movie plays and to wish fulfillment, and that is like also the biggest wish for filment as an adult but also as a teenager. That you're just kind of one step away from looking beautiful, that someone could take you in a room and they could do all these things. And also then her life does open up in this crazy way. Yes, because she's become a princess, but also because she looks like this ideal beauty, she becomes popular. Yeah, everybody likes her. The guy shet to like her, and are they're really careful to caveat that he always liked her. 08:00Speaker 2 Yeah, and it wasn't the makeover. Yeah, I was actually really don't do that as much watching it last night. And she just ignores him for like the whole first part of the movie. 08:09Speaker 3 He literally is like, you're attractive, and she just doesn't even like. 08:12Speaker 1 Well, that's the whole thing of these movies, too, is that they pedal this thing that everyone's secretly beautiful they just don't know it. And for a lot of us, and they put me in that category. No, fine, that's fine, there's no there's no little trick of like, if she just took her glasses off, or if she just took her hair out, she would be so beautiful and she just doesn't know it. 08:30Speaker 3 Yeah, I don't wear glasses. What's the next straight. 08:33Speaker 1 I wear my hair on every day. There's no way a man can take out my ponytail, and I'll instantly be beautiful. What is left? So good? Okay, before we move on to my next one. Are you excited for Princess Diaries three? Or you're upset about it? People different came. I'm excited because Princess Diary is too wildly a great movie. All the sequels out there, I think they're both great. 08:52Speaker 2 I think Anne is great, and if she wants to be involved in it, I know she'll want to do it right. 08:57Speaker 1 So super excited. 08:58Speaker 2 It's such a part of my child would I watched that movie rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat. 09:03Speaker 1 It was one of those ones I was always. 09:04Speaker 2 Watching, even the nos Soldier, like, even if it's not better than one and two, I'm here for it. 09:12Speaker 1 Okay, So the movie Makeover I'm going to talk about now. I picked because it has my favorite reveal like When You Had. It has everything it has, like the big reveal, the reaction, the build up, the song, the song choice and maker. I realize every nearly every makeover Picked has an iconic song that sort of had new life in it because of the movie moment and this is an iconic comedy from the year two thousand, a great year for m comms. Miss Congeniality. Oh oh my god. 09:42Speaker 3 I can't what but like I would have been really really young. 09:46Speaker 1 Okay, you need to watch this is just movies. I just assumed everyone has seen I didn't. I didn't see it. I was like in not pro I was probably in high school. I did even know. Anyway, I didn't see the movies, but I just remember what. It's one of those ones where I just remember, like I know of it. I mean, we're probably had on a VHS and I just watched it over and over and over again. Oh my god. It holds up so well. I mean, no, it's problematic as hell, but that's fine. That's fine. But our feminist is outside. Actually yeah, it's actually out the window. I've thrown it. No, no, it's not problematic, and like, there's actually nothing so super bad in it. They'll just be little things. But anyway, as a movie, ten out of ten holds it so well. You need to watch it. You'll love it. Don't watch the sequel. Okay, the sequel's frodden. Sandra Bullock went through Who is the lead of this movie, Sandra Brook went through a time where she made two really regrettable sequels, Speed Too. I don't watch that. I never watch I've loved Speed Speed. Yeah. The second one, she's on a boat, and even she was like, that was a mistake because the boat. They're like, the boat's going so fast because the boat can go anywhere, because it's a cruise ship. It can't go the world. Yeah, it's fine. And Miss Congenality Too not great, but Miss Congeniality a perfect movie. So Sandra Bullet plays an FBI agent called Graasy Heart, and she's like really schlubby and gross, like yeah, that's the perfect kind of word for her. She wears like an ill fitting, like cheap suit which is always like crinkled, food stained. She's got really frizzed. They really frizzed her hair hair same thing. She's just hair like and she looks terrible. And so there's been a threat against the Miss USA pageant. So a lot of it set in a beauty pageant, and they need someone to go undercover in the pageant as a beauty queen to like stop the threat. And they go. They have this computer program that they go through all the women the FBI, and it renders them what they would look like, which is a bit weird down to think of what they would look like like, what their bodies would look like. And Sandra looks gracy heart is the only one when they like, they think she's like, they think she's ugly, even though it makes a deep fake of them. And I was like, wow, that technology came true twenty years later and we used it for evil. Yeah, and then because not all the boys and Benjamin Bratt plays like one of the FBI agents, true who's like the hot sexy guy friends. It's a real Benjamin Bratt moment in the early two thousands. You might not know because you're a child, but he was like the romantic lead in so many movies and Julia Roberts was madly in love with him and they were getting married and it was a whole thing. So that, yes, this is peak Benjamin Bratt era. That moment passed, We're still in peak Sandra Bullock era, so that moment is still here. So she is the only one that can go under cover, but they're just like, look at her. She's so ugly and she's a mess. And she is also she's like an ultimate tomboy and she doesn't want to do it. So that's the difference too, is that in this movie she is so against she's scene, whereas a lot of other movies women are like, yes, please give me a makeover, which is also fine. So they bring in Michael Caine. Michael Caine one of it. Do you know who my yes is? Okay, you literally shocked, but I'm just thinking of him giving a makeover. Yeah, no, I know, that's why and one of the most like he's such an esteemed serious yea, but he And the thing is this cast. It's like Benjamin Bratt, Sandra Bullock, Candice Bergen, Michael Caine, William Shatner, like all of these incredible actors in this movie. And this is why romcoms works so well then, because this was a huge studio release with all these like Oscar factors, Like we was just a throw away. It wasn't like a throwaway watches on a Friday night in Netflix and forget about it. They like approached this like it was Shakespeare, like these people exactly. They approached it like it was Shakespeare. And that is the way to make a romantic comedy. Anyway. So Gracie Heart then has to they have to bring in Michael Kaine's character, who is like a deportment expert like etiquette, also trains people for the pageants. He's also like a pageant cope, and he is revolted by Gracie Heart when he meets her, absolutely revolted. And the fun thing about it is like nobody just so like he's just literally like this, what is like a cow. She's disgusting, And Sandra Bullock is so good like her physical comedy. Like the first scene is they're meeting together having lunch in a restaurant and he is just looking at her with this intense disgust on his face in a way that only Michael Caine can and she's like ripping into this food and all swapping down her face like with her frizzy with her frizzy hair, the ultimate cry. And Sandra Bullock said that she really leant into really wanting to make Gracy like as unattractive as she could so that the makeover scene paid off. So she was really behind the scenes pushing like no, let's have food in her teeth when like when we first meet her, like let's have like her clothes be kind of really disheveled, like she she walks around really hunched over. And Sandra Bilok also said that it was so funny because it only took like less than an hour in the makeup chair to make her look like Gracy pre makeover, but then she had to spend like three or four hours in the makeup chair for Gracie afterwards, just to even in the scenes where she's just walking around just to look like a normal woman. Yeah, and I was like, I love that. Even Sandra Bulok is like, it takes four hours to make me look like a natural Sandra Bok. So the stakes of this maker is so high because the FBI is involved. They're like, how do we make this ugly woman beautiful? So they get this like literal warehouse, like a huge warehouse, and it's full of like the tanners, the waxes, the beauty maker everywhere is this place. I know, I want to grab me out. Well, this is like that, Like it's so funny because it's like this is what it takes a woman look beautiful. It's like we have the whole FBI army making literally taking over what looks like an army base. That's so fair, like this huge bunker and they go in there and they have to like wax her and tan her and all this stuff, and she's hating and you never see it. And then you see Benjamin Bratt and his like crew on the outside with the plane like waiting to fly her to the pageant to like get her in, like where is she? Where is she? And all of a sudden, the big bunker door like slides open and Mustang Sally starts playing I Got It and it's just the best. It's one of the best movie music moments in history. And it's a cover of Mustang Sally. So they did a cover of it, and Sandra Bullock played the tambourine, I think because she's like just want to be involved, yeah, just wants to be part of it. So and there's a slow motions shot and then Sandra Bullock as Gracie Hart walks out. You have to, I mean, don't watch this until you watch the movie because a bigger moment. Again, it's so sexist but so good. I love it so much. And the camera pans up super slowly over her body and she all of a sudden, she's tan, she's shiny, she's wearing a purple mini dress. Love her hair of course straight, it's straight straight, it's straight straight as an ironing board, like literally not a hair out of place, and her hair's all glowy. And Benjamin Brat, like his character, I'm just using his knee because that's how people are. It just rips his sunglasses off in and his jaw drops open and everyone around him is like, oh my god. And she's strutting and then she just falls straight over. And before that she has an iconic line about like I haven't done this, I haven't eaten doped mess with me, and then she just topples over because she can't walk in heels. She's so real for that. Yeah, and it's just such a huge moment. And obviously, like later on when her and Benjamin Brad's characters fall in love, it's very much they fall in love because like their personalities, but it's also because she's super hot now. 16:51Speaker 3 Yes, because she had the purple dress, and then she has to. 16:53Speaker 1 Go through the Miss America pageant, right, which is again it's so the comedy is just so. 17:00Speaker 3 She's great, like it's funny. 17:03Speaker 1 I think that's the role she should have won. An Oscar for I know they don't like to give oscars to comedy actresses, but there's so many good one liners that she delivers, and her physical comedy is so good. Oh my god, you're gonna love it. Okay, you're gonna love it. I've watch it. I can't believe I was sole jealous of you. They get your torch it for the first time. 17:18Speaker 2 I think I've watched a lot of things, but when I'm under the age of ten, like. 17:23Speaker 1 I just feel like that's a movie that gets referenced all the time, that's still in the conversation. So I would sort of believe that more for movies that fall out of the conversation, but that's still at anyway, you get to watch it, so please and report back on your next on the next time you're on the pod. But yeah, that to me, that stands out as the biggest reveal of a make over and the biggest and also the fact that a lot of other makeover scenes are just like, I don't know, we can get one stylist in someone's bedroom and we're just like, but this is like, no, no, this is an industrial fispiration to make a normal woman look like the ideal of a woman. And you know what, I love it so much, this congeniality. If anyone else has watched it? All right? 18:01Speaker 3 Next on my list another movie that I rinsed to death. 18:04Speaker 2 I used to sit in front of my TV with the lyrics book because it is spoiler a musical. 18:09Speaker 1 Okay it's grace, Oh okay, yes, I love my god. Watching this as a kid, all I wanted to do was be a sexy Sandy And I'm so far from all of that. But all I wanted to do was wear leather pants and strut around. Yeah, which would I worked for me? 18:24Speaker 2 Carnival, Yeah, they're all like thirty years old as well, exactly, so many like I don't know about you, but I again, watch that movie as a kid, over and over again, all of the references straight over my head. 18:36Speaker 1 Didn't realize what a hickey from Kinnicky was now, didn't realize about the whole like having sex in the back of the cars, didn't realize that a pregnancy scarab was what she was worried about. Literally, no idea, just like the songs really exactly. And you know what, like kids watch sexy movies. 18:51Speaker 2 So my dad loves Grease yeah, so that's how I was like introduced to me. 18:54Speaker 3 So we always watch it when I was younger. 18:56Speaker 2 But I think it has one of the most iconic transformation make overs but also a little bit controversial. So obviously we follow the lives of Danny played by John Travolta, and then we have the lovely Olivia Newton John as Sandy, who's like this very clean cut, cutesy good girl, and Danny's this bad boy, like grease up completely opposite. 19:18Speaker 1 World ultimate like Romeo and Juliet story, like they come from different worlds. How could they ever be together? Could they ever? 19:25Speaker 3 We'll tell you how. 19:27Speaker 2 All it takes is a pair of leather pants and a red lip, according to sandrew D. So she walks out in the final like scene sequence, they've you know, had a little bit of push and pull this whole time. 19:38Speaker 1 So they both go to. 19:39Speaker 2 These I don't want to say extreme lengths because all Danny does to change himself for Sandy's put on like a little lettermon jacket, like a little nit jacket. That's all he does, which I feel shows the extent of effort that like men are going to change for us. 19:51Speaker 1 Yes, that's so true. There's such a good lesson in Greece that modern women. 19:55Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, yeah, And then obviously Sandy shows up in these insane leather pants. It's beautiful, like off the shoulder, black top, red lip, she's got this bold like curly hair, actually doing it for. 20:07Speaker 1 The color girl God. So actually it's a so debunked. We have been raised our whole lives to think that Grease is actually anti feminist, because it's feminist. The initial kind of message that we took away from the movie was this movie is telling us you have to change yourself for a man, and that's bad. But actually, what we've uncovered today is that it's actually a feminist plot because she's saying curly hair can actually curly hair is. But while curly, did you ever have Like I used to be obsessed with grease And then I got my mum to get me these like old school not even get me. I think they were my moms from like when she was a kid, these like old school hot rollers, And I would hot roll to look like Sandy, and I thought it looked so chic when I was like eleven, and looking back now, I did look like a poodle. Yeah, that was me. With the red lip. Yes, it never worked really for me. 20:50Speaker 2 It's giving dancers steadfast, but I gave it, gave it a go. 20:54Speaker 1 I still do it red lip. I still do black leather and a red but you rock a red lip. I'm just I'm just sandy on the Yes, we. 21:00Speaker 2 All have a little bit of sty but yeah, I think it definitely is a little bit of. 21:03Speaker 1 A feminist like move. 21:04Speaker 2 A lot of people can say, you know, she's changing for Danny, but I think what we see is, you know, she's like leaning into her confidence and like it's like a bold yea. 21:12Speaker 1 Well, because you can take it either way, you can take it. You're right that she's becoming who she wants to be. But that's the thing feminists like, these makeover scenes are always wrapped up and like, no, she's empowering herself, and it's like no, no, no, she's dressing for the male gaze and that's fine. 21:27Speaker 3 Who she chose to do it, but only. 21:30Speaker 1 Because she felt desperate that he would leave her. But again, who amongst us hasn't dressed for the male kase? Exactly? 21:35Speaker 2 Guilty, It's a time and a place exactly. 21:41Speaker 1 Right, is exactly. But again, I just can't hold that in my head. When I watch gree it's like I'm aware that it's there. I'm aware of this idea and it's a different time, and it's got the best like mic drop moment of like like literally like the whole carnival turns to her and then she has that iconic clim when she has tell me about it. Stud. So also she's smoking. 22:02Speaker 3 She doesn't know how to smoke. 22:03Speaker 1 But she's doing it. I'm looking friends, how do I put it? That's just a good moment. Oh my god, Olivia Neton John is so good. So again, it's sexualizing dressing from man, it's sexualizing like like smoking and like that bad girl. But I don't even care because you know what, smoking does look sexy on screen? It does. Don't do it, don't do it. 22:20Speaker 3 But sometimes it looks chic on the screen. 22:22Speaker 1 Yeah, it always always looks cheek on screen. 22:25Speaker 2 Now, they do have this like fairy tale ending they get into a convertible when they fly off into the sky. 22:29Speaker 3 But there are actually a lot of fan theories. 22:32Speaker 1 Are you gonna say that they're dead? 22:36Speaker 2 So basically there are theories that when they fly off into the sky that they actually passed away and that Sandy actually died from the very first scene where they're first on the beach, because Danny when he's singing someer love and there's a line where he said, you know, she almost drowned. 22:54Speaker 1 I saved her. 22:55Speaker 2 So it turns out, according to this theory, that she in fact drowned, and then we enter this like homo fantasy for the entirety of the whole film, and that's how they're flying off in the end. 23:09Speaker 1 I have heard that theory that this is all Sandy's, Like, this all happened in the moment she died, and this is what living through like living through those moments is that she fantasized going to school with Danny and then falling in love and stuff. But it's very intense and also like none of the screenwriters have said that's true. But I love I love when like a theory for like a really old school movie like this just takes it takes. 23:29Speaker 3 Over a life of its own, like people run rampant with it. 23:33Speaker 2 I hate to disappoint anyone that thinks they're dead, but the creator has since come out and said. 23:38Speaker 1 That that's absolutely it's not the case. They're not dead. 23:41Speaker 2 Also, there's so many like fantasy moments in the film I just love to grab on exactly. 23:46Speaker 1 Well, I guess I just want to explain why the calf flies at the end. It's not even a good theory though, the calf flies at the end because it's a movie and things happen in movie music and that's fine. But no, that's a great make over scene. Love that, And it does go to show that if you're having problems relationship, if you put on a pair of black leather pants, they will go away. 24:03Speaker 2 Oh and apparently they had to show them onto her body so tight. 24:06Speaker 3 It's so tight their vintage Yeah, oh love. 24:09Speaker 1 Okay, the next one I'm going to bring up is the most realistic movie makeover I have ever seen, so in a way that it's actually quite a feminist makeover. Again, not that that matters, we're putting that out the window. Bring the hat back in dress. No, no, the hat's on the doorn on. It's not all the way back in the room dress for the male gaze. It's fine in a movie, But this one I always think is like a beautiful way of watching, like seeing a makeover happen really really slowly, and having it be part of the character's evolution in a way that just feels so real. And this makeover scene is from the two thousand and two classic My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Oh have you seen it? Yeah? No I haven't. Yeah, what a great movie? 24:50Speaker 2 Right? 24:50Speaker 1 The is not to speak The first one is the first one I would say is a perfect movie. So in this if anyone hasn't seen it. Nina the Dallas, who also wrote and produced and created the movie, plays Tula and John Corbett our favorite rom com boyfriend. John Corbet's just in every room. Yeah, they just throw him in and he always. 25:11Speaker 2 Works once they get one good one. I feel like it just becomes a role like everyone's boyfriend. 25:16Speaker 1 He just has that vibe and like movies have been like and parts of been like created and written for him, like him playing Aiden Sex and the City. They created like a lot of that role for him. And also the rom com starring Kate Hudson Raising Helen. Have you seen that? Oh you should watch it? Really got it to listen, where she plays a model agent who her sister passes away and she has to like raise her children. John Corbett plays her love interest in that, and I remember like listening to director being like, well, but why would she fall it? Because she's like this beautiful New York like styler that everyone loves. Why would she fall in love with the high school principle like we have to give him something? And then they looked at him like he's John Corbett. Yeah, that's his thing. That's it. We don't have to add anything. Fine, And when you watch the movie, you're like, yeah, I get it. So John Corbett plays Ian Miller and so the story is actually have such a vivid memory of seeing this movie for the first time because it's one of those movie experiences that stays in my head forever because it came out when I was like just starting high school and one of my really good friends in high school is Greek, and so they held like a screening, like the Greek community in Townsville, like the Greek Community Center held a screening as like a fundraising thing, and so we all went to that, and yeah, it was the best way to see it because there's a whole cinema full of Greek people and so they were screaming the joke person and it was just like the vibe was so high. Also, like the characters in this speak Greek, and so they would say a joke and they would all laugh, and then the subtitles will pop up and then like the non Greek s bea because we would all laugh and we're like, oh, we got it now, Like that is really funny. So I Sultays remember it as being like this really joyful experience. So Tula is like an adult. They sort of say her age, like she's like probably in her late twenties, but like in the like you know, Greek household, like super old, unmarried, no children, a pariah of a family, if you will. And she works in like the restaurant, and like she lives with her parents, and her life is so small and everyone's just like she's so frumpy, and you know, all that sort of stuff. And then slowly over time she decides to start kind of changing her life, not on a huge scale, in a way that feels so beautiful relatable in terms of like she goes and takes some computer courses at like a community college, and she's and she then gets a job outside of the family, so she kind. 27:26Speaker 2 Of a second coming of Age's definitely. 27:30Speaker 1 Was really small looking at her parents house and she goes to work in another family business where she's like out you know, by herself in the office. And during all this she gives herself like a little makeover that's peppered through this montage, but it's more so like she'll just wear like instead of wearing like the overly frumpy clothes she was wearing, she just buys herself like a nice dress and a matching cardigan, and then you see her like try and like like do her eyebrows and she puts like just a little bit of lipstick on and like she's like and again the frizzy hair is the frizzy hazel thing, but she does straightened, but it's not pinned straight. She just kind of smooths it and stulls like she put rollers in it. And it's this beautiful, quiet, little makeover that she just does to herself. 28:11Speaker 2 And I think that's what makes it, Yeah, that it's something that she found in herself and like exploring your like your own identity and like finding who you are verse like having the FBI coming it. 28:22Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly. When you put the two makeover scenes here that I brought up, it's like one is like, yeah, fifty people in like a government funded bunker trying to make Sandra Bullock look like a woman. And then the other one is just a woman at home in her childhood bedroom, just putting on a little bit of lipstick like Tula, just like you know, and she puts on a card again, and the thing is it just changed all of a sudden, she just feels like herself. And I think this is why it's one of my favorite movie makeovers, is that she hasn't done this too, Like she hasn't met Ian Miller yet, so she hasn't done this for a man. She hasn't even done it with the idea that she could possibly meet a man, because she's still working in like the family business. It's more so that as she kind of got a little bit of education and stepped outside of like the tightness of her family, left her bedroom and just kind of fell like, well, likely she's just prings so much time there. Now she's out in about the world, and all of a sudden, she just becomes the person that she wanted to be. Like it feels like it feels like it's actually the only movie makeover I can think of where it feels like it's just for the Carroc. 29:17Speaker 3 And it's happened before they've met the guy. 29:19Speaker 1 And it's not serving the plot, Like, no one's saying like you have to have makeover so you can be the price of the princes. You could be the prompt get the guy exactly. This is just for her and it's so beautiful and so small and quiet, and she doesn't look She looks different at the end of the movie than she does at the start, but not drastically drastically different. She does take her glasses off on my context is that scene of her trying to contacts. Had to put that in there, exact, had to get it in there. So basically it's like less frizzy hair, no contacts, a cardigan, and some nice lipstick, but not as extreme as other makeovers. And so then she's so happy because she's educated herself. She's working in an office and then Ian Miller played by John Corbett just happens to walk by and sees her get stuck in the headset headset. She tries to get up, and he goes into a travel agent and they chat and they just have this beautiful like courtship courtship is the correct word, where they fall in love but then when they get engaged, huge controversy. He's not Greek and her family unaccepted him. This movie has if anyone hasn't seen it, I cannot recommend it enough because the one liners are so good, Like when they get engaged and she takes him over to her big family gathering. He's like family dinner, like five people, She's like, no, fifty five and they say, like, he doesn't eat meat. I like to put that line in here. It's so good, and just like the lead up to their wedding and everything, and I just like even with her wedding, like she looks gorgeous, but it's never this idea of it. She has to be like overly made up. She looks like a completely different person. So I just think if there's like one movie makeover scene that kind of really changes that formula and makes it like part of the story. It's my big, fat, great wedding and tulla And you know, sometimes okay to put on a nice cardigan and some lipstick and go work in the family travel agency and you'll meet John Corbett. That is quite and that's a lesson. Sometimes it's okay to do all do all those things. Yeah, well, I think the biggest thing is she gets a macover while she goes to community college and gets an education. As we know, that is the thing that will say she three exactly so maybe fair great wording. Love it so much? 31:15Speaker 2 All right, we've come to the man, the man make Yes, it's crazy stupid love. 31:22Speaker 1 Oh my god, yes, okay. 31:24Speaker 2 Steve Carell, he plays col Cow's life is falling apart. His wife has left him. He's trying to get back out into dating. He's hopeless. He's quite a bit of a dig. He's in a bar and he runs into this really cool womanizer obviously played by none other than Ryan Gosling because who else. 31:42Speaker 1 Could and the best supporting actor his abs. Oh my god, they should be in the credits one hundred and they get a whole scene with Emma Stone's character dedicated and not only did he work out for months to get them, but they had like special makeup artists, like because you again, those makeup artists have to come in and do the shading and the bronzing and like draw them on. But they're also just there. They're almost too much like when she sees it, when when like Emmaston's character season and she's like, those are photoshops. I don't think I want to be with someone with apps like that A good look up close and just see them just from just to know what the muscles would look like. But I don't need to feel like that's a violation. 32:19Speaker 3 But for those who are watching the bar is imagining. 32:22Speaker 1 Feeling that's going to put me on a watch list somewhere. But yes, we have a male makeover. 32:30Speaker 2 Isn't interesting like flip on the script of like what we usually expect because it's the woman kind of going through the midlife crisis here where she's had an affair and now the man is like having this like makeover off the back of it. So he goes on this like there's like this three minute makeover montage where they like change all of his outfits. He's learning how to like speak to women, getting all the tips and then putting into the practice. 32:54Speaker 1 It's just like not something you expect either. 32:56Speaker 2 For like Steve Carell, he does it so well because he's just not someone you expect to be like hitting up the ladies in a bar. 33:03Speaker 1 Yeah, it's like that is so true that he gets a makeover. But the reason I didn't come into my head when we're talking aout makeover is is that even though he does get a makeover, it's nowhere near his extreme as some of these other makeover scenes with women. I guess with men, there's only so much you can do once you sort of wax them because their hair of shorts is not that curly. You can't have that. You don't have the curly plotline. And I guess that he didn't have glos. They should have put him in glasses. He did look very like dad because then they could no, he does look different. Like it's a good makeover scene, but I'm just saying it doesn't have like the kind of and they don't have a montage, right, that's a mistake they should have had. They do like a full musical montage. 33:41Speaker 2 There wasn't a musical montage, but they do go through like a number of like designer clothes. There's a really funny quote where like Ryan Gosling's character is looking Steve Crorer up and down and he's like, are you Steve Jobs the founder of Apple? No, then you can't wear those to his shoes And basically the whole goal is like for Steve Carell's character to be better than the gap. 34:00Speaker 1 Oh my god. And I have a vivid memory of him like being really repulsed by his wallet and again not thinking of wallet be part of a makeover. But I guess for a guy, especially it is and the fact that it has Velcrow and I think it was like I was a kid while watching at the time, or I was like, oh my, Walter has Velcrow's cute. And I also wasn't the sexy man out in the streets. But if I wanted to be, I had the wrong wallet. Is a little bit of an egg. 34:22Speaker 2 What would you do if you were on a date with a man without he's got coins? 34:26Speaker 1 They're like jingling around. Well, oh my god, would I break up with a man if he had a Velcrow wallet? Something to think about on this if you're on the Sydney dating scene, kind of say that potentially that's gonna happen, and that's not even the worst thing. 34:38Speaker 2 Yeah, I don't think I would break up with him if they had. I wouldn't either I have a wallet for their birthday, Yeah, I. 34:44Speaker 1 Would, just especially because every time you do the rip with a Velcrow wallet, it's so loud and intense. It is it's an announcement. Yeah, and you're just like I'm opening my velcro point and there's no Yeah, that's some folded in here, and you're trying to like pull like straighten the money out because it's been folded in there. 35:00Speaker 2 Actually still have yours exactly exactly. 35:02Speaker 1 Well, I think I am one of the last team in the world who has a wallet that I. 35:05Speaker 2 Lost my wallet and now I've lost all my cards, like I get all scattered around the house. 35:09Speaker 1 Okay, no, no, no, you need it just PSA. Everyone gives me so much shit for having a wallet, but when we can, I just tell you. When someone needs a physical card or something, who do they turn to me? Who's got a wallet? It's got an emergency hair tie in it, it's got emergency cash in there. 35:21Speaker 2 So basically, get rid of your wallet if you don't want anyone to ask you for anything, yeah, exactly. 35:25Speaker 1 Or if you're going through a makeover, exactly exactly. If you're going through a makeover, that's the first thing change. Yeah. 35:30Speaker 2 I just love crazy stupid love, though obviously follows the lives of like lots of different love stories that are all like interconnected, but at the heart of it, it's like Steve's Carrell's character. Yeah, and like everything that he goes through. 35:43Speaker 3 But yeah, I love that movie. 35:44Speaker 1 It was so good. Emily and I talked about that in an episode little while ago when were actually talking about plot twists because it has who hasn't seen it, although I assuming most of you has. It has a great plot twist that is someone expected but just works so well for these characters. Oh love, Yeah, you don't spoil it for like the two people are there who haven't seen it. Okay, last time I'm going to bring up and I had to go back to nineteen ninety nine. Cool, and I just remember again watching this movie on a loop as a kid again as a kid on a VHK guest. Before you say that, oh, I'm actually I wonder if you've I mean, I hope you've seen this. Otherwise I'm going to be super disappointed. It's the nineteen ninety nine teen classic. She's all that. 36:22Speaker 2 No. 36:24Speaker 1 I know should be this surprise every time, but like, this is a classic movie. I thought you're going to say Clueless. Then, Oh, I had Clues on my list, but we talked about Clueless so many times. Yeah, we have a whole brutally honest review on it, so that's got an important makeover seeing it too. You've never seen you know what I know of it, Okay, and like that's the weird thing to me. Can I say you know of it, but you've never watched it. 36:46Speaker 3 I think a lot of it is like what my parents like fed me at that time. 36:50Speaker 1 You're an adult woman now who lives alone with your own TV. You can make your own choice. I'm just saying so many times I went home and I'm like, oh, I wish I had a new, great movie to watch. But the hard thing about me and my job, I've seen every movie. I literally have seen every movie. It's so hard for me to sit down and find a movie that I haven't seen that this is not fair, but I really want to watch. And then you're spoilt for choice. You could sit down a fry night. There's so many. 37:13Speaker 2 Movie hours an hour, and I got in my adult life too, it's valuable, like I've things to look forward to exactly. 37:19Speaker 1 You would love this again. This out of all the movies on my list, this is probably kind of the most problematic. 37:24Speaker 3 Okay. 37:24Speaker 1 It's also like using a woman for like a nefarious reason over like sexualizing her and there's a slight sprinkling of sexual assault end. But it's a classic. So she's all that. It came out in nineteen ninety nine and it stars Rachel Lee Cook. Do you know that name? Blasphemy? Rachel Lee Cook was in the late nineties, only two thousands. I'm a icnic girl. She started so many big movies. Also, Josing the Pussycats was a movie that was torn apart and I think did wreck her career. I think, but now we look back at it and see it for the masterpiece that it is. So she plays Laney Bogs. What a name? I don't know. They were like, you know what, this girl's gonna be unpopular and ugly, and we're gonna give her name's gonna be Laney Bogs, and that's going to explain exactly why. 38:07Speaker 3 Laneye b would be cute. 38:08Speaker 1 Yeah, they don't call it that. And so Lanny Blogs is she's an artist at school, and she was like and she kind of just looks away at paintings all this sort of stuff, and she dresses like an absolute hobo. So they went to because Rachel Lee Cook is a really like a classically beautiful kind of pixy looking woman, and so they really had to go to town to make her unattractive. So they've dressed her in like really oversized, paint slatted clothes. People don't want women to be comfortable, no, exactly, and you know what, she is so comfortable. That's what I take away from her, Like, and she's wearing about fifteen and before she gets her makeover, she's wearing about fifteen layers of clothes in all scenes, like she'll have like a pair of like old pants on and like a long top over that, and then like a singler and then that's very inn now and like an exactly ahead of her time. So Laney Bogs is the most unpopular nerd at school and they have have he do the classic thing of like the first time we really see her, she just falls over. Girls in rom coms always falling over. Sometimes they're so hot and beautiful that they fall over because like I'm so clumsy, and sometimes it's to show they're a nerd. But and then like feeling around exactly well exactly, and she and she wears really big glass okay of course, and straight hair but pulled back in a low ponytail I'm not a sleek ponytail like a I do anything to my ponytail. But the glasses is the real thing. So she So she's the ugly girl at school. And then we have Freddy Prince Junior and this is peak Freddy Prince Junior era. Don't I mean, I don't want to say his air is completely over, but like this was peak, Like he was the wrong com leader and so many things. Playing Zach Syla and he is like the sports storry. I know, Lany Bogs Zach Syler. You know he wrote on this movie m Night Shamalan before he did six Cents. Yeah, like I know, well, you could just be a skipper for high It's like hash. It's like haw Shonda Rhimes wrote the classic Britney Spears movie Crossroads. 40:05Speaker 2 Job. 40:05Speaker 1 Yeah, before you have your big break, you just write the scripts that are out there. So Mna Scharmalan is like I can just imagine he had like the sixth cent script on one screen and like the other and between them. So Zach is like the actual like the jock of the school, the king. Everyone loves him. They're all seniors in their final year of high school and they're coming up to prom and again a very old school like American high school thing is like the prom is always like the climax of the movie, like everything's leading towards that. The rest of his cast is like a who's Who of the nineties. We have Matthew Lillard as Brock Hudson. He's like a reality stuff. Paul Walker, the late Paul Walker again peak kind of his like era playing Dean. And then Jodi Lynn O'Keefe. I don't know if you know that name, but you would know her face. She is in every kind of she's She wanted to be on the Vampire Diaries and stuff later on, but she was in a lot of these early like teen movies, always as like kind of the high school mean girl, the beautiful high school young girl. So Zach and Taylor have been Taylor Vaughan have been together, and they're like they're going to be prom king and queen. That's their thing. Only Taylor meets Matthew Lylard's character, who is old of them out of high school, a reality TV start on the real world. In the real world, Ye dumps Zach for him, and it's like anarchy in the school that the couple has broken up and that Taylor has dumped Zach, and then everyone feels sorry for Zach. And he was like, I can have any girl I want. This is not romantically he meant to fall in love with him, and you kind of do, but he's like, I can have any girl I want. He's like, I could make a girl like that. So this movie is actually based on Pigmalion, which is a play in a book that then went on to inspire the Audrey Hepburnt movie My Fair Lady. So this is a play. Do you know there was a moment in time there where like Clueless is based on Emma and She's the Man, Yeah, And She's the Man is based on Twelfth Night, and as we discovered another podcast the other day, Bridge Jone's Diaries Pride and Prejudice. So this was a big moment in time where, like all of these teens, the biggest thing you could do for box office gold was to remake these classic literature as a teen rooman, now we make movies from last year, and now we'll just remake anything that's out there in the world. So Zach is like, I can make any woman. I can make her the popular girl. And so Paul Walker's character makes him a bet. He's like, Okay, I'm going to bet you that you can't make like a girl that I pick in this school into the prom queen. And Zach's like, pick someone. And that's of course when Lanye makes her entrance, comes up the stairs. She's making fifty layers of clothing. She's got fifty bags eye and she like immediately falls to the floor. And he was like, and then I'm just gonna say Paul Walker because it's two, so you know who I'm talking about. Paul Walker goes her and Freddie Prince Junior. Zach is like, Lady Box, absolutely not. He's like, like, the subtext is she's the ugliest woman I've ever seen. So then he has to the subjects of all these exactly, and then Zach's like, well, I'm gonna have to do this now. So then Zach has to go and try and befriend laany Bogs. And it's so funny when he like keeps trying because he's used to. He's the star of the school, he's the sports star. Everyone loves him. He's so charming. So he kind of goes over to her, like later that night he goes up and to her where she's working, where she's wearing this like huge, full lawful hat because she works in like service industry and he's like never worked a day in his life, and he's like kind of like hey, and she just has no time of day for him, and so funny because she's like, look, I'm not smart, and he's like what this is kind of like a good kind of like twist of that classic like dumb jock smart girl being ugly. She's like, I'm not smart. I know I look smart because I got the subtext is because she's got wearing glasses. I know I look smart, but I'm not. And I can't choot. I can't chewt to you. She's like, I can't. I know you're probably failing school, but I can't help you. I can't choot you. I just I look smart, but i'm not. He's like that is oh no. Then he's like, oh I'm smart. I'm like the third top of that class. I don't need tutoring, thank you so much. So he's smart. So he is smart, yeah, because he's like his whole subject is like his parents like you're going to like this fancy school and you're gonna do this, You're gonna do that. He's like, he can't pick anything of his life. Smart boy, I know, sucks. And so then he starts to befriend her, and like slowly over time, starts to sort of like make her over and teach her how to be cool. And the makeover scene is so so important because up until this he has no like sexual interest in her because she's got glasses, you know, of course, and he can't tell, Yeah, he can't tell because it's pulled back, and he can't tell that she's got a tiny hot body because she keeps falling over and oversized and she falling over so she has a muscle issue. It's all happened. So he's like, he's like, I'm gonna make her gorgeous, but I have no interest in her. And then he brings over his older sister, Mac played by Anna Papquin, and Anna Pumpquin is only in this movie for a short moment, but she makes She comes into this sassy older girl from college, his sister. And then there's this party at school and so Mac takes Laney upstairs and they have this moment where and this moment has been parodied so many times, most famously in Not Another Teen Movie, where all she does is pull out the ponytail and she's like, and you're beautiful. But they at this moment too where lady talks about the fact that her mom died when she was little and so she's been raising her little brother and looking after her dad, and she's like, I just never had a mom to like teach me this stuff, because Mac is like, in the nicest way possible, your eyebrows are disgusting, let's pluck them, Like why don't you wear makeup? And she's like, well, I didn't have anyone to teach me, which is lovely also so young, like yeah, yeah, Well she's a senior in high school and she's never plucked her eyebrows, which isn't the craziest thing at all, but the movie does make you think like her life has been severely stunted because of this. So this college student cuts her hair so instead of having and again usually they add hair in, so this is also maybe not even like a flipping the script, but at the time they so she has this like long, kind of straight, like scraggly hair, they cut it into a super super chic boss she does yeah, yeah, exactly, cuts her head perfectly, plucks her eyebrows, takes the glasses off, apparently does like a huge tan and stuff. And then we have a staircase, and all we haven't had a staircase moment so far as you know, all good movie makeover scenes really need a staircase. That's the moment. So Zach's downstairs, he's waiting to take it as party. He's expecting Lady Bogs to come like like his sister's just gonna like put some lipstick on her and she's gonna come frumpy down the stairs. All of a sudden, the camera pans up the stairs and a slow plan and you see a foot come down in a red high heel, and then the classic song kiss Me by Sixpence none the Richer, also from Dawson's Creek. I kind of tell you how this movie. This song is like this soundtrack of my entire teenage years. And every time I play it now, I actually, that song's too powerful. I have to be careful when I play it because if I play it with the street oh passion stranger, like I can't. That song's too powerful. It's just like it just makes you right, because it's a soundtrack to all the big romantic moments in our lives as that we watched on screen and not participation saying I don't have that many referends. No, no, no, I've never had a romantic tree that song, but it makes me think of a time where like it's signaled this like cue a social cue tea. Yeah, it's like this subconscious like dog whistle of like I'm about to fall in love for the first time, and as a woman in her late FERI I still feel that. And so the camera pans up kiss Me starts to play, and then you see Lannie for the first time post makeover, and she is an absolute bombshell. She's wearing a tiny red mini dress, one of the most iconic dresses in film. I would say, she's got this beautiful, not over the top makeup, like not a red lip or anything, just like beautiful, smoldering, bronzy makeup, a beautiful chic Bob and Zach like loses his mind, he cannot believe it. We look on and Freddie Princeton up give that man at the Academy Award. He just he's like, oh my god, this is the most stunning woman I've ever seen. This is simple manner exactly. You put in a red little as in my early twenties, I had so many little red party dresses because all I wanted to do was dressed like Lannie. I was just waiting for a stair I was waiting for a staircase, and I've never lived in a house with staircase. How will I make my entrance? So she's walking down the stairs, the song's playing, it's so beautiful, and then she falls face first down the stairs. Well, she grabs the because she walked in Heels's true. It's actually like a quite a it's quite dangerous. Yeah, she's trying to do a slow walk down the stairs in heels, the first time she's ever worn heels. It's actually quite the moment. So the spell is like broken because she has to grab the railing and he has to help her, and everyone's like ooh, and he's like ill and he's like, oh, I remember how before? Yeah, I don't know. But falling when you're hot and following your ugly too true. When she fell when she was ugly disgusting. When she falls and she's hot, he's like, pretty well, help you yeah, pretty brifect. Yeah, it's so funny. And before before she comes down the standcase, Anna Patlin's character Mac does a little introduction. She's like, and they try to I think they're aware there that like, giving this teenage girl a bombshell makeover might send the wrong message. They try to dilute it, but it doesn't work. That's what I was thinking, is. 48:54Speaker 2 That putting it like a young girl in like red dress, red heel. 48:57Speaker 1 A sexy red dress for a man that's trying to win a bet with her. Yeah, there's a lot. It's all trying to make grimacing for anyone who cuts. So Mac tries to sort of dilute the message. So she comes down before Lane and she goes introducing the not improved but different. It's kind of what she says Lady Bogs. She's like, not improved but different because she's trying to be like, no, she was good before, and I'm like, guys, she wasn't good before. That's the part of the whole the movie. That's the premise of this exactly. And so as it goes on, she does dress better, but she doesn't like overly change how she dresses. And then she wears this like black glittery dress to the prom, and she does look nice, but it's the whole thing because she goes with Paul Walker's character and then he tries to sexually assault her and then Zack Syla saves her and then they fall in love and have a gorgeous kiss and then there's a huge dance number. There's the best dance number that it's a lot happens. That's a lot that poor girl. Yeah, yeah, she goes through a lot. Well, she finds out before the prom that it's a bet, and she has this moment where she yells act She's like, all of a sudden, this turns into like it does turn into a Shakespearean drama. It's not based on Shakespeare, but the vibe. She's like, am I bet, am I bet? Am my fucking bet And he just looks at her asi and he goes yes. And then oh my god, burn it into my soul that moment because you just like I remember as a kid, like nearly crying. I'm like, yeah, it's over, Like they'll liver be in love now where they do spoiler alert end up in love. She should be like, thank you for the makeover. Yeah, exactly. Now everyone at school wants me because they realized I'm not I could make a man. Yes, that's the sequel, so that in my head is well. There's a remake with Addison Ray called He's All That. Whether I've watched that, but I don't that. 50:34Speaker 3 I think I don't remember it because I had to burn it out. 50:36Speaker 1 That is a burable movie. Okay, that movie is blaspheming. They tried to flip the script by making it a girl making over a guy, which I'm all for, but the movie itself is terrible. So I can't believe. You can't not You cannot live in a world where you've watched He's All That and not She's All That. I know when one is a one is an abomination and one is a classic teen movie. So you've done that wrong. I'm sorry. So She's All That one of the teen movies that still lives in my head is one of the best makeovers ever. 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Fluent Fiction - Hindi: The Brave Journey to Sanctuary: A Tale of Hope and Unity Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/hi/episode/2026-04-11-22-34-02-hi Story Transcript:Hi: नई सुबह की हल्की धूप धरती को नरम गर्माहट देती थी।En: The gentle sunlight of the new morning gave the earth a soft warmth.Hi: हर तरफ बिखरे हुए मानव सभ्यता के अवशेष अनाथ महसूस होते थे।En: The scattered remnants of human civilization felt orphaned.Hi: खाली इमारतें, टूटे हुए पुल और विरान गलियों ने मानो मौन का लबादा ओढ़ रखा था।En: Empty buildings, broken bridges, and deserted alleys seemed to have wrapped themselves in a shroud of silence.Hi: लेकिन इनकी छांव में, वसंत के चुनिंदा जंगली फूलों की हिम्मत भरी विरासत देखी जा सकती थी।En: But in their shadow, the brave legacy of spring's selected wildflowers could be seen.Hi: आरोह मानचित्र की ओर गहरी नजरों से देख रहा था।En: Aaroh was looking intently at the map.Hi: उसका मन बार-बार गुज़रे हुए वक्त की कुछ दुर्भाग्यपूर्ण घटनाओं को याद करता था, जब उसने अपना परिवार खो दिया था।En: His mind repeatedly recalled some unfortunate incidents of the past when he lost his family.Hi: नisha साथ-साथ चलते हुए बहुत विचारशील थी।En: Nisha was walking alongside, deep in thought.Hi: उसके मन में अपने खोए हुए भाई के मिलने की आस भी जगती थी।En: In her heart, the hope of finding her lost brother awakened.Hi: कबीर थोड़ा पीछे था, उसके कदमों में डर का हल्का सा एहसास था।En: Kabir was a little behind, with a slight sense of fear in his steps.Hi: यह तीनों एक सुरक्षित स्थान, जिसे केवल "शरण स्थल" के नाम से जाना जाता था, की तलाश में निकले थे।En: These three had set out in search of a safe place, known only as the "Sanctuary."Hi: यह जगह हजारों शब्दों की तरह ही, एक नई शुरुआत का वादा करती थी।En: Like thousands of words, it promised a new beginning.Hi: लेकिन यात्रा कोई आसान नहीं थी।En: But the journey was not easy.Hi: भारी बादल, काली आंधी, और संसाधनों की कमी ने इन्हें हर कदम पर चुनौती दी।En: Heavy clouds, dark storms, and a lack of resources challenged them every step of the way.Hi: आरोह को एक बड़ा निर्णय लेना था - क्या एक खतरनाक रास्ता चुनकर समय बचाना चाहिए या लंबे लेकिन सुरक्षित रास्ते पर चलना होगा।En: Aaroh had to make a big decision—should they choose a dangerous path to save time or take the long but safe route?Hi: आरोह को पता था कि इस फैसले से समूह में दरार पड़ सकती है।En: Aaroh knew that this decision could cause a rift in the group.Hi: अंत में उसने इस खतरे को नisha और कबीर के साथ साझा करने का फैसला किया।En: In the end, he decided to share this risk with Nisha and Kabir.Hi: उसने कहा, "हमारे पास एक विकल्प है - छोटा, खतरनाक रास्ता या लंबा, सुरक्षित रास्ता।En: He said, "We have an option—a short, dangerous route or a long, safe route.Hi: क्या सोचते हो?En: What do you think?"Hi: " नisha ने चुपचाप आसमान की ओर देखा, जहां बादल घिर रहे थे।En: Nisha quietly looked up at the sky, where clouds were gathering.Hi: "हमें साथ मिलकर फैसला लेना चाहिए।En: "We should make a decision together.Hi: कोई पछतावा नहीं होगा अगर हम सब साथ रहें।En: There will be no regret if we all stay together."Hi: " कबीर ने सहमति में सिर हिलाया, लेकिन उसकी आंखों में उसका डर स्पष्ट था।En: Kabir nodded in agreement, but the fear in his eyes was clear.Hi: आखिरकार, समूह ने खतरनाक रास्ता चुना।En: Finally, the group chose the dangerous path.Hi: यात्रा के दौरान, उन्होंने एक-दूसरे को समर्थन दिया, कठिनाइयों को झेलते हुए आगे बढ़े।En: During the journey, they supported each other, overcoming difficulties as they moved forward.Hi: जब वे मुसीबतों के रौद्र रूप को पार कर रहे थे, तब उनके बीच का विश्वास और अधिक गहरा हो चला था।En: As they battled through the harsh challenges, the trust between them grew deeper.Hi: आखिरकार, वह सब शरण स्थल पहुँचे।En: Eventually, they all reached the sanctuary.Hi: यह कोई परीकथा जैसा नहीं था, लेकिन उनके लिए यह नई शुरुआत का आधार था।En: It was no fairy tale, but for them, it was the foundation of a new beginning.Hi: आरोह, नisha, और कबीर ने महसूस किया कि उनकी असली ताकत एक-दूसरे में ही थी।En: Aaroh, Nisha, and Kabir realized that their true strength lay within each other.Hi: आरोह ने पारदर्शिता और सामूहिक बुद्धिमत्ता का महत्व समझा।En: Aaroh understood the importance of transparency and collective wisdom.Hi: नisha ने भाई के पुनर्मिलन की उम्मीद संजोए रखी, और कबीर ने समूह की प्रतिबद्धता में विश्वास प्राप्त किया।En: Nisha held onto hope for a reunion with her brother, and Kabir gained confidence in the group's commitment.Hi: कुछ दूर बाइसाखी के गीत हवा में घोल रहे थे, जंगली फूलों की खुशबू के साथ मिश्रित हो बढ़ते हुए।En: A little distance away, the songs of Baisakhi were mingling in the air, mixed with the scent of wildflowers wafting through.Hi: एक नई शुरुआत के लिए यह अद्भुत पृष्ठभूमि थी।En: It was a wonderful backdrop for a new beginning. Vocabulary Words:gentle: हल्कीorphaned: अनाथremnants: अवशेषshroud: लबादाlegacy: विरासतintently: गहरी नजरों सेrecall: यादunfortunate: दुर्भाग्यपूर्णawakened: जगतीslight: हल्काsanctuary: शरण स्थलresources: संसाधनrift: दरारtransparency: पारदर्शिताdeeper: गहराfaith: विश्वासovercoming: झेलते हुएcommitment: प्रतिबद्धताharsh: रौद्रcollective: सामूहिकfoundation: आधारhumility: विनम्रताdesolate: विरानtrembling: डरovercome: पार करनाmingling: घोलemotion: भावनाcourage: हिम्मतbattled: लड़ेreunion: पुनर्मिलन

What happens when fame meets real life, and laughter meets courage?In this engaging episode of Toshila Podcast, Nisha Ganesh opens up about her journey from television success to unforgettable real life experiences.From hilarious incidents like the Kathipara moment to the fun chaos of Bigg Boss days with Ganesh (where no matter what happened inside, she was the one getting tagged outside

Nisha Gupta is an existential phenomenologist, a depth psychotherapist, a creativity scholar, and an artist. She's an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of West Georgia and earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. She's also, if she doesn't mind me saying, a bit of a rising star as an early career psychologist, having won early career awards from the APA divisions for both humanistic and qualitative psychology. Dr. Gupta's work centers on lived experience and the problems of form and method in the field. She is an advocate of the psychological humanities, disseminating psychology to the public as art, including paintings, film, poetry, and literary memoir, for community healing and social change. Her artwork seeks to raise critical consciousness and empowerment regarding marginalized lived experiences, such as sexual and gender oppression, creative madness, and spiritual emergencies. In psychotherapy practice, she integrates depth and liberation psychotherapy perspectives. In this conversation, we talk about phenomenological filmmaking and what film can capture about distress, identity, time, and relationships that often elude other approaches to psychological research. We also talk about spiritual emergency and the phrase "dark night of the soul," including the difference between those frameworks and the more familiar language of symptoms and disorders. Dr. Gupta also shares her own experience of navigating a spiritual emergency as a clinical psychologist. We discuss what helped, what did not, what clinicians tend to miss in these situations, and what it would mean to build a better set of responses around people going through them. Finally, we discuss liberation psychology and collective resilience, including the question of how to think about suffering when its sources are social and political, and how to avoid reducing resilience to individual "grit." *** Thank you for being with us to listen to the podcast and read our articles this year. MIA is funded entirely by reader donations. If you value MIA, please help us continue to survive and grow. https://www.madinamerica.com/donate/ To find the Mad in America podcast on your preferred podcast player, click here: https://pod.link/1212789850 © Mad in America 2026. Produced by James Moore https://www.jmaudio.org

Fluent Fiction - Hindi: Thrills and Triumphs: Solving a Holi Heist in Varanasi Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/hi/episode/2026-03-15-07-38-19-hi Story Transcript:Hi: वाराणसी की घाटों पर होली का उत्सव अपने चरम पर था।En: The festival of Holi on the ghats of Varanasi was at its peak.Hi: चारों ओर गुलाल और रंगों की बारिश हो रही थी।En: Everywhere there were clouds of gulal and showers of colors.Hi: घाटों की सीढ़ियों पर भक्तजन स्नान कर रहे थे, और पवित्र गंगा उनकी आस्था की चादर तले बही जा रही थी।En: Devotees were bathing on the steps of the ghats, and the holy Ganga flowed beneath the canopy of their faith.Hi: इसी माहौल में, शान और निशा एक बेहद गंभीर समस्या का सामना कर रहे थे।En: In this atmosphere, Shan and Nisha were facing a very serious problem.Hi: उस प्राचीन मंदिर से एक पुरातन कलाकृति चोरी हो गई थी।En: An ancient artifact had been stolen from that ancient temple.Hi: शान, एक इतिहासकार, अपने व्यक्तिगत दुःखों से उबरने के लिए इस कलाकृति को ढूंढने में लगा हुआ था।En: Shan, a historian, was engaged in finding this artifact to overcome his personal grief.Hi: निशा, एक पुरातत्वविद, इस रहस्य को हल कर अपने करियर में एक पहचान बनाना चाहती थी।En: Nisha, an archaeologist, wanted to solve this mystery to establish her identity in her career.Hi: दोनों ने मिलकर चोरी का पता लगाने का निर्णय किया।En: Both decided to uncover the theft together.Hi: शान के मन में थोड़ी झिझक थी, लेकिन उसने निशा के सुझावों पर विश्वास करते हुए कदम बढ़ाए।En: Shan was a bit hesitant, but he trusted Nisha's suggestions and took steps forward.Hi: निशा ने एक जोखिम भरा कदम उठाने का निश्चय किया था।En: Nisha had decided to take a risky step.Hi: वह जानती थी कि होली के समय इलाके में जाना चुनौतीपूर्ण होगा क्योंकि हर गली में रंग और भीड़ का मंजर था।En: She knew that going to the area during Holi would be challenging because every lane was a scene of color and crowd.Hi: लोडों से भरी गलियों में घुसते हुए दोनों ने अपने संदेहों का पीछा किया।En: Entering the loaded lanes, they followed their suspicions.Hi: भीड़ और रंगों की धुंध के बीच वे लक्ष्मण घाट के पीछे के एक पुराने रस्ते तक पहुँचे।En: Amid the crowd and the haze of colors, they reached an old path behind Laxman Ghat.Hi: निशा ने सुना था कि यहां एक गुप्त गुफा है जो सिर्फ होली के दौरान ही नज़र आती है क्योंकि तभी जल स्तर अपने निम्नतम स्तर पर होता है।En: Nisha had heard that there was a secret cave here that could only be seen during Holi because only then was the water level at its lowest.Hi: गुफा तक पहुँचते-पहुँचते सूर्यास्त हो चला था।En: By the time they reached the cave, it was sunset.Hi: रंगीन पानी की गिरती धार के पीछे एक दरवाज़ा था।En: Behind the falling stream of colorful water, there was a door.Hi: अंदर आकर दोनों ने देखा तो वहां कलाकृति सुरक्षित रखी हुई थी।En: Upon entering, they saw the artifact safely kept there.Hi: उन्हें यह अंदेशा भी न था कि चोर ने इसे यहां रखा होगा।En: They had no suspicion that the thief had placed it here.Hi: अचानक पीछे से कुछ आवाज़ें आईं।En: Suddenly, they heard some voices from behind.Hi: चोरी करने वाला शख्स उनके पीछे ही खड़ा था।En: The person who had stolen it was standing right behind them.Hi: परंतु पुलिस को बुलाकर निशा ने उसे रंगे हाथों पकड़वा दिया।En: However, Nisha called the police and had him caught red-handed.Hi: पुरातन कलाकृति को वापस पाकर शान के चेहरे पर संतोष था।En: Recovering the ancient artifact brought satisfaction to Shan's face.Hi: उसे लगा जैसे उसके अपने दर्द से उसके मन का भार हल्का हो गया हो।En: He felt as if the burden of his own pain had been lightened.Hi: निशा ने पहली बार खुद पर विश्वास किया था और इस जीत के साथ उसे अपने करियर में एक नया आत्मविश्वास मिला।En: For the first time, Nisha believed in herself, and with this victory, she gained new confidence in her career.Hi: होली की रंगीन भीड़ में खोते हुए, दोनों ने वाराणसी के घाटों पर होली का रंगीन उत्सव मनाया।En: Immersed in the colorful crowd of Holi, both celebrated the colorful festival on the ghats of Varanasi.Hi: रंगों के इस त्यौहार ने उनके जीवन में नई दिशा और उमंग भर दी थी।En: The festival of colors infused their lives with new direction and enthusiasm. Vocabulary Words:ghats: घाटोंpeak: चरमgulal: गुलालcanopy: चादरdevotees: भक्तजनartifact: कलाकृतिarchaeologist: पुरातत्वविदhesitant: झिझकsuggestions: सुझावोंrisky: जोखिम भराhaze: धुंधpath: रस्ताcave: गुफाthief: चोरsuspicions: संदेहोंpolice: पुलिसcaught red-handed: रंगे हाथों पकड़वा दियाsatisfaction: संतोषburden: भारpersonal grief: व्यक्तिगत दुःखोंestablish: स्थापित करनाcareer: करियरimmersed: खोते हुएfestival: उत्सवenthusiasm: उमंगovercome: उबरनेidentity: पहचानvictory: जीतconfidence: आत्मविश्वासscene: मंजर

Cap, Quinn, and Insania break down the Dota match fixing scandal that allegedly ends with someone getting punched in an internet café, and then dig into PGL Wallachia.A Dota player from team Winter Bear claims he was physically assaulted mid-match at a LAN center and forced to throw game two, with notorious figure Sensibility allegedly logging into his account to finish the game. Cap, Quinn, and Insania pick apart Ivan's story — what holds up, what doesn't, and whether the "betting mafia" behind lower-tier Dota is something grimmer than just Sensibility and his crew. From there, the trio turns to PGL Wallachia: Team Liquid topping their group, why Falcons look like a TI-winning team on a familiar downward trajectory, the MOUZ and Yandex reality check, PARIVISION's Satanic carrying on his back, and why Heroic's TaiLung might be the best mid player to enter the scene recently

Devon thought the date was a win. Korean barbecue off Shattuck Avenue, sizzling short ribs at the table grill, and easy conversation about hiking and Bay Area sunsets. Nisha showed up in a forest green coat, tied her hair up to keep it smoke free, and handled the grill like a pro. The night ended with a quick goodbye as she headed to BART. And then she disappeared.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fluent Fiction - Hindi: Holi on Marine Drive: A Tale of Reconciliation and Renewal Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/hi/episode/2026-03-10-22-34-01-hi Story Transcript:Hi: मारिन ड्राइव की चमकती राह पर होली के रंग बिखरे हुए थे।En: On the gleaming path of Marine Drive, the colors of Holi were scattered.Hi: मुंबई का यह प्रख्यात स्थान, अपनी मरीन डॉयमंड नेकलेस की तरह, समुद्र किनारे रंग-बिरंगे सपनों की चमक से आभासित था।En: This famous spot in Mumbai, like its marine diamond necklace, was illuminated with the shimmer of colorful dreams by the seaside.Hi: राजीव, कविता और निशा इस सफर के मुसाफिर थे, जिनके दिलों में अनकही बातें और पुराने घाव थे।En: Rajeev, Kavita, and Nisha were the travelers of this journey, with untold words and old wounds in their hearts.Hi: वसंत की नर्म हवा और होली का उल्लास, फिर भी राजीव के दिल में एक हलचल थी।En: The soft spring breeze and the joy of Holi were present, yet there was a restlessness within Rajeev's heart.Hi: वह सबसे बड़ा भाई था, जिसने सालों पहले परिवार के एक महत्वपूर्ण फैसले में गलतियां की थीं।En: He was the eldest brother who had made mistakes in a significant family decision years ago.Hi: वह उन फैसलों की जिम्मेदारी उठाने और अपने भाई-बहनों से माफी मांगने के लिए आया था।En: He had come to take responsibility for those decisions and to seek forgiveness from his siblings.Hi: कविता, बीच वाली, मन में एक तल्ख़ी लिए थी।En: Kavita, the middle one, carried a bitterness in her heart.Hi: वह खुद को परिवार में उपेक्षित महसूस करती थी।En: She felt neglected within the family.Hi: उसे लगता था कि राजीव की माफी में कोई सच्चाई नहीं है।En: She believed that Rajeev's apology lacked sincerity.Hi: उसकी नजरें रंगीन गुब्बारों और चारों ओर फैले गुलाल से हटकर उन पुराने, अनसुलझे मसलों की ओर थी।En: Her gaze shifted from the colorful balloons and strewn gulal to the old, unresolved issues.Hi: निशा, सबसे छोटी, कोशिश कर रही थी कि वह अपनी हंसी और सौहार्द से परिवार में ताज़गी लाए।En: Nisha, the youngest, was trying to bring freshness to the family with her laughter and camaraderie.Hi: उसे यह दिन खास बनाने की उम्मीद थी।En: She hoped to make this day special.Hi: "देखो, ये रंगीन पिचकारियां," निशा ने कहा, "मिठाई का सामान और पानी के गुब्बारे... होली है और मौज मस्ती नहीं की, तो क्या फायदा!"En: "Look at these colorful water guns," Nisha said, "the sweets and water balloons... it's Holi, and if we don't have fun, what's the point!"Hi: परंतु, एक बार गुब्बारा फूटते ही, उन सबकी हंसी भरे चेहरों पर गंभीरता का मौसम चढ़ गया।En: However, once a balloon burst, seriousness clouded their joyous faces.Hi: राजीव की आवाज हल्की और कंपकंपाती थी, "कविता, मैंने जो किया, उसके लिए मुझे अफसोस है। मैं तुमसे माफी माँगना चाहता हूँ।"En: Rajeev's voice was faint and trembling, " Kavita, I'm sorry for what I did. I want to apologize to you."Hi: कविता की मुट्ठी में गुलाल था, लेकिन उसकी आंखों में पुरानी शिकायतों का रंग उड़ेल रहा था।En: Kavita held gulal in her fist, but her eyes poured out the color of old grievances.Hi: "तुम्हारे शब्द कितने भी खूबसूरत हों, राजीव, मैं उन्हें मान नहीं सकती," उसने प्रतिक्रिया दी।En: "No matter how beautiful your words are, Rajeev, I cannot believe them," she responded.Hi: "तुमने कभी हमारा दर्द महसूस किया ही नहीं।"En: "You never felt our pain."Hi: उसके शब्दों की तलवार ने हवा की खुशबू को एक पल में बदल दिया।En: Her words slashed through the fragrant air in an instant.Hi: एक गर्मागरम बहस छिड़ गई।En: A heated argument erupted.Hi: हर वह बात सामने आई, जिसे वे पिछले कई वर्षों से अपने दिल में छिपाए बैठे थे।En: Every matter that they had been hiding in their hearts for many years came forth.Hi: "हम सभी एक परिवार हैं।En: Amidst this cloud of conflict, Nisha finally spoke, "We are all family.Hi: क्या हम पुरानी बातों को पीछे नहीं छोड़ सकते और इस त्योहार के रंग में भिग नहीं सकते?"En: Can't we leave the past behind and immerse ourselves in the colors of this festival?"Hi: मरीन ड्राइव की चमक रात के अंधेरे में खोने लगी।En: The brilliance of Marine Drive began to fade into the night.Hi: राजीव ने गहरी सांस ली, "कविता, मैंने सच में गलती की।En: Rajeev took a deep breath, "Kavita, I truly made a mistake.Hi: मैं इसे सुधारना चाहता हूँ।"En: I want to make things right."Hi: कविता की आंखों में नमी थी।En: There was moisture in Kavita's eyes.Hi: उस नमी में एक संधि थी, पुरानी शिकायतों को पीछे छोड़ने की।En: In that moisture was a truce, a readiness to leave old grievances behind.Hi: "चलो, इस वर्ष होली के रंग नई शुरुआत का प्रतीक बनते हैं," उसने राजीव की ओर बढ़ते कहा।En: "Let's make this year's Holi colors a symbol of new beginnings," she said, stepping towards Rajeev.Hi: हाथों में रंग और दिलों में सुलह का वादा लेकर, तीनों समुद्र किनारे होली मनाने लगे।En: With colors in their hands and a promise of reconciliation in their hearts, the three of them began celebrating Holi by the seaside.Hi: उन्होंने रंगों की जंग जीत ली थी, और मरीन ड्राइव ने उनके बिखरे रंगों और नई उम्मीद की गवाही दी।En: They had won the battle of colors, and Marine Drive bore witness to their scattered colors and new hope. Vocabulary Words:gleaming: चमकतीscattered: बिखरे हुएilluminated: आभासितshimmer: चमकtraveler: मुसाफिरuntold: अनकहीrestlessness: हलचलsincerity: सच्चाईneglected: उपेक्षितballoon: गुब्बाराgrievances: शिकायतेंfaint: हल्कीtrembling: कंपकंपातीbitterness: तल्ख़ीconflict: लड़ाईfragrant: खुशबूheated: गर्मागरमresolution: संधिtruce: संधिreconciliation: सुलहresolved: निपटाए गएwounds: घावunresolved: अनसुलझेcamaraderie: सौहार्दsibling: भाई-बहनsymbol: प्रतीकerase: मिटानाimmersing: भिगानाmoisture: नमीglistening: चमकते

Fluent Fiction - Hindi: Spring of Innovation: A Startup Duo's Holi Challenge Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/hi/episode/2026-03-03-23-34-02-hi Story Transcript:Hi: वसंत का मौसम था और होली का त्योहार पास था।En: It was the season of spring, and the festival of Holi was near.Hi: स्टार्टअप इनक्यूबेटर का माहौल उत्साह से भरा था।En: The atmosphere in the startup incubator was filled with enthusiasm.Hi: चारों तरफ ताजे रंगों और कॉफी की खुशबू फैल रही थी।En: The fresh scent of colors and coffee was spreading all around.Hi: हर कोने में युवा उद्यमी अपने नए-नए विचारों पर काम कर रहे थे।En: In every corner, young entrepreneurs were working on their new ideas.Hi: आरव और निशा को उनके उद्यमिता क्लास के हिस्से के रूप में एक परियोजना पर मिलकर काम करना था।En: Aarav and Nisha had to work together on a project as part of their entrepreneurship class.Hi: दोनों की पहली मुलाकात में ही परियोजना को लेकर जोश और तनाव दोनों देखा गया।En: From their very first meeting, both excitement and tension regarding the project were evident.Hi: एक ओर, आरव तकनीक में निपुण था, दूसरी ओर निशा मार्केटिंग की महारथी थी।En: On one hand, Aarav was adept in technology; on the other, Nisha was a master in marketing.Hi: आरव का लक्ष्य था अपने मेंटर को प्रभावित करना और परियोजना का नेतृत्व करना।En: Aarav aimed to impress his mentor and lead the project.Hi: पर उसे अपनी नेतृत्वक्षमता पर भरोसा नहीं था।En: However, he lacked confidence in his leadership skills.Hi: वहीं निशा चाहती थी कि उसके विचारों का भी मूल्यांकन हो और वह अपने सार्वजनिक भाषण के डर पर काबू पाए।En: Meanwhile, Nisha wanted her ideas to be valued and wished to overcome her fear of public speaking.Hi: प्लानिंग के दौरान आरव की पूर्णतावादी प्रवृत्ति अक्सर निशा के विचारों को नजरअंदाज कर देती थी।En: During planning, Aarav's perfectionist tendency often overlooked Nisha's ideas.Hi: दिन बीतते गए और प्रेजेंटेशन का समय नजदीक आ गया।En: Days passed, and the time for the presentation drew near.Hi: मेंटर की उच्च अपेक्षाएं और तारीख का दबाव दोनों पर भारी था।En: The high expectations of the mentor and the pressure of the deadline weighed heavily on both of them.Hi: तभी आरव ने निर्णय लिया कि निशा को प्रेजेंटेशन देना चाहिए।En: Then Aarav decided that Nisha should give the presentation.Hi: निशा ने भी अपने डर का सामना करने और प्रस्तुति की बागडोर संभालने का फैसला किया।En: Nisha also resolved to face her fear and take charge of the presentation.Hi: प्रेजेंटेशन वाले दिन, सब कुछ तैयार था।En: On the day of the presentation, everything was ready.Hi: जब निशा ने दर्शकों के सामने प्रेजेंटेशन देना शुरू किया, तकनीकी समस्या आ गई।En: When Nisha began presenting in front of the audience, a technical glitch occurred.Hi: आरव ने तुरंत उसे संभाला और सिस्टम ठीक किया।En: Aarav immediately took control and fixed the system.Hi: इस बीच, निशा ने दर्शकों के सवालों का आत्मविश्वास से जवाब दिया।En: Meanwhile, Nisha confidently answered the audience's questions.Hi: उनके परफॉरमेंस से मेंटर बहुत प्रभावित हुआ।En: Their performance greatly impressed the mentor.Hi: आरव ने निशा के योगदान की सराहना की और उन्होंने अगली चरण के लिए अपनी टीम की जगह सुरक्षित की।En: Aarav appreciated Nisha's contribution, and they secured their place for the next phase for their team.Hi: इस अनुभव से आरव ने सहयोग की ताकत को पहचाना और विविध कौशल की सराहना की।En: From this experience, Aarav recognized the power of collaboration and appreciated diverse skills.Hi: वहीं, निशा ने अपने आत्मविश्वास को बढ़ाते हुए सार्वजनिक भाषण का डर जीत लिया।En: Meanwhile, Nisha, boosting her confidence, overcame her fear of public speaking.Hi: इस प्रकार, दोनों ने मिलकर दिखाया कि जब कौशल और सहयोग एक साथ हों, तो हर चुनौती को पार किया जा सकता है।En: Thus, both demonstrated that when skills and collaboration come together, any challenge can be overcome. Vocabulary Words:season: मौसमfestival: त्योहारincubator: इनक्यूबेटरenthusiasm: उत्साहentrepreneurs: उद्यमीentrepreneurship: उद्यमिताtension: तनावadept: निपुणmentor: मेंटरoverlooked: नजरअंदाजdeadline: तारीखweighed: भारीresolve: फैसलाpresentation: प्रेजेंटेशनaudience: दर्शकglitch: समस्याcontribution: योगदानcollaboration: सहयोगdiverse: विविधboosting: बढ़ाते हुएconfidence: आत्मविश्वासovercome: पार करनाchallenge: चुनौतीevidence: साक्ष्यmaster: महारथीpublic speaking: सार्वजनिक भाषणskills: कौशलappreciated: सराहनाsystem: सिस्टमrecognized: पहचाना

Guest Bios Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar, BAMS, MD (Ayurveda) One of the most academically accomplished Ayurvedic physicians in the Western world. Former personal physician to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Bestselling author of Change Your Schedule, Change Your Life and co-author of Awakened Sleep. Faculty at numerous integrative medicine programs. Trained in both classical Ayurvedic medicine and modern clinical research. His work bridges 5,000 years of Vedic wisdom with cutting-edge neuroscience and AI-driven health research. Renowned globally for his clinical expertise and his ability to make the ancient tradition accessible, scientific, and immediately practical. Dr. Sheila Patel, MD Board-certified family medicine physician and a leading voice in integrative health. Former Chief Medical Officer of the Chopra Center. Co-author of Awakened Sleep. Dr. Patel's clinical practice synthesizes conventional medicine with Ayurvedic principles, meditation, and mind-body approaches. She has spent decades helping patients understand the connection between emotional regulation, sensory awareness, and physical health — with sleep as the connective thread. Brought to you by MTE — More Than Energy, the performance formula designed for those who live life at full resonance. Trusted by top performers worldwide, MTE blends adaptogens, nootropics, and essential minerals to fuel focus, vitality, and flow — without the crash.  Code Michael Elevate your day, sharpen your mind, and feel More Than Energy. 15% OFF YOUR ORDER:: https://getmte.com/products/mte-daily-energy-wellness?ref=MICHAEL Key Themes & Timestamps  [00:00] Introduction — launching Resonance, the long tail of a book [02:28] What is Awakened Sleep? The Vedic perspective on sleep as a journey into consciousness [06:13] Modern science validates ancient wisdom — the convergence [08:13] The doshas explained — Vata, Pitta, Kapha and your sleep constitution [14:24] Universal sleep principles — temperature, light, timing, and the Stanford AI study [17:19] Personalized sleep — why one size doesn't fit all [20:00] The nervous system connection — parasympathetic tone and sensory overload [23:47] Your evening meal is your sleep prescription [25:50] The world has changed more since 1992 than in the previous thousand years [28:14] Orthosomnia — the new tech-induced sleep disease [29:09] Email apnea and text apnea — we literally stop breathing [30:15] Somniphobia — the fear of being alone in the dark (and why loneliness is the real insomnia) [37:47] Breath as medicine — the yogic prescription for sleep [40:11] Mantra, sound, and the neuro-associative conditioning of sleep [42:27] Creating your evening routine — the practice Michael is starting tonight [45:05] The dress rehearsal for dying — sleep as a journey into consciousness [51:17] Awakened Sleep as meditation's companion — the fourth state of consciousness [56:04] Geography, doshas, and the places that heal us [59:56] Vedic astrology, the eclipse, and the chapter we're entering [1:02:49] Closing — guiding us home in a noisy world Key Quotes Dr. Suhas: "We are doing a dress rehearsal of dying every night. We go to the same place where we were before we were born and long after we will be gone." "Sleep outweighs diet and exercise. If you rank lifestyle things, sleep is even higher ranked than diet and exercise and loneliness." "Orthosomnia — about 40% of Gen Z adults are experiencing sleep anxiety because of the gadgets they are wearing." "Where your attention goes, that's where the energy is flowing." "These techniques are not free. They are very expensive — because the most expensive commodity right now is me time." "An introspective sage is awake when the rest of the world is sleeping." — Bhagavad Gita Dr. Sheila: "Sleep is an active process. It's not just rest — it's an active rest." "So much of depression, anxiety is that disconnect from nature, disconnect from community. Everyone's all in their own individual bubbles." "Pick the weeds, plant some seeds, water them with gratitude." "We have so many tools within us — and with our breath, it's free." Michael: "I think a lot of us as humans have lost our way with all of the conflicting signals. And it's hard in a noisy world to find true signal that reminds us of who we are and how we can find our way home." Resources Mentioned Awakened Sleep by Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar & Dr. Sheila Patel Change Your Schedule, Change Your Life by Dr. Suhas Stanford Medicine AI Sleep Study (January 2025) — 65,000 participants, 600,000 hours of sleep data, predicting 130+ health conditions Oura Ring — wearable sleep tracking Vedic Meditation / Mantra practice Temescal (traditional sweat lodge) ceremony Bhagavad Gita — "Yānishā sarva-bhūtānāṁ tasyāṁ jāgarti saṅyamī" Rathri Sukta — Vedic hymn to the twin sisters Usha (dawn) and Nisha (dusk) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) Connect Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar: [website] | [Instagram]  Dr. Sheila Patel: [website] | [Instagram]  Michael Trainer: michaeltrainer.net | @michaeltrainer | Resonance Podcast Pre-Order Resonance Resonance: The Art and Science of Human Connection arrives May 5, 2026 from BenBella Books. Foreword by Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art. "Outstanding. I wouldn't change a word." — Steven Pressfield  Companion Substack Read Michael's full essay on this conversation: "The Dress Rehearsal for Dying: What Vedic Sleep Science Reveals About Why We Can't Connect" — exploring how orthosomnia, somniphobia, and the loneliness epidemic collide with the Resonance framework and the Seven Pillars of authentic connection. https://substack.com/@michaeltrainer Michael Trainer has spent 30 years learning from Nobel laureates, neuroscientists, and wisdom keepers worldwide. He's the author of RESONANCE: The Art and Science of Human Connection (March 31, 2026), co-creator of Global Citizen and the Global Citizen Festival, and host of the RESONANCE podcast.Featured in Forbes, Inc, Good Morning America. Follow on YouTube

Book a Complimentary 15-Minute Discovery Call with Dr. Mary - https://www.drmarysanders.com/meditationsIf you're living with chronic joint pain, morning stiffness, inflammation, fatigue, or a body that feels unpredictable, you're not alone. For millions of people with rheumatologic conditions, daily life can feel like a constant negotiation with symptoms, managed, medicated, yet never fully resolved.In this episode of Energy Medicine, we explore a different question:What if your symptoms are not something to silence, but signals asking to be understood?Host Dr. Mary, a medical intuitive and chiropractor, is joined by Dr. Nisha Manek, a rheumatologist turned bestselling author, speaker, and health coach. Trained in academic medicine, Dr. Manek courageously stepped beyond a drug-only model of care after witnessing its limitations. Together, they unpack what becomes possible when science and spirit meet, and when the body's innate intelligence is finally given space to lead the healing process.This conversation offers hope, clarity, and a grounded reimagining of healing for those seeking relief beyond symptom suppression.In this episode, you'll hear:Dr. Manek's personal journey from academic rheumatology to integrative, drug-free healingWhat first caused her to question whether pharmaceuticals were the primary path to wellnessWhat recognizing the power within really means from a physiological and clinical perspectiveHow nervous system regulation, energy, and the biofield fit into modern medical understandingWhy do symptoms often appear when the body has lost regulation and coherenceWhat a new medical paradigm could look like, and what medicine is being asked to releaseWhat is at stake for patients if healing continues to focus only on symptom managementWhy this conversation mattersRheumatologic conditions are often treated as lifelong problems to manage rather than systems to understand. This episode invites a more compassionate, integrative perspective that honors the body's wisdom, supports regulation and resilience, and opens the door to healing beyond medication alone.Contact Dr. Mary:FB   / dr.maryesanders  IG   / dr.maryesanders  YouTube    / @dr.maryesanders  LinkedIn   / drmaryesanders  Website https://www.drmarysanders.com/Contact Dr. Nisha Manek:LinkedIn:   / feed  Website: https://www.nishamanekmd.com/About the podcast:Energy Medicine is hosted by Dr. Mary, a medical intuitive and chiropractor. The promise of this podcast is to provide practical energy medicine tools you can apply to everyday life, tools that support nervous system regulation, resilience, and healing beyond symptom management.

Fluent Fiction - Hindi: Capturing Holi's Essence: Art and Friendship Unveiled Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/hi/episode/2026-02-24-23-34-02-hi Story Transcript:Hi: हार्दिक वसंत बेबस बारिशों की मिट्टी सी गंध के साथ खिल उठा था।En: The heartfelt spring blossomed with the scent of helpless rain-soaked soil.Hi: हुमायूं के मकबरे के हरे-भरे बगीचे सदियों की कहानियाँ सुनाते हुए होली की मौज-मस्ती में रंग चुके थे।En: The lush gardens of हुमायूं Humayun's Tomb, telling tales of centuries, were now painted in the merriment of होली Holi.Hi: हर ओर गुलाल की सुगंध थी, और रंग-बिरंगे कपड़े पहने लोग, हंसी-ठिठोली से माहौल महका रहे थे।En: Everywhere, there was the fragrance of गुलाल gulal, and people dressed in colorful clothes were filling the atmosphere with laughter and joy.Hi: आरव, एक होशियार फ़ोटोग्राफ़र, अपनी कैमरा लटकाए इस ऐतिहासिक स्थल पर पहुंचा।En: आरव Aarav, a talented photographer, arrived at this historic site with his camera dangling by his side.Hi: वह इस उत्सव की हर छवि को अपनी तस्वीरों में कैद करना चाहता था।En: He wanted to capture every image of this festival in his photographs.Hi: अपने भीतर की भावनाओं से संघर्ष करते हुए, वह सोचा करता, क्या वह अपने जीवन में अपनी संस्कृति से वाकई जुड़ पाया है?En: Struggling with his inner emotions, he often wondered whether he was truly connected with his culture in his life.Hi: उसी समय, निश्चय और कला से भरी निशा भी मकबरे के करीब आ पहुंची।En: At the same time, the determined and artistic निशा Nisha also approached the tomb.Hi: परिवार की अपेक्षाओं और अपनी रचनात्मकता के बीच झूलती, वह होली के रंगों में अपने कला की प्रेरणा तलाशने आई थी।En: Caught between family expectations and her creativity, she sought inspiration for her art in the colors of होली Holi.Hi: सुंदर गुलाल की फुहारों के बीच, उसकी आँखें चमक उठीं जब उसके चेहरे पर रंगों की बारिश हुई।En: Amidst the beautiful showers of गुलाल gulal, her eyes sparkled when the colors rained down on her face.Hi: बड़ी भीड़ के बीच, आरव ने नज़रें उठाईं और देखा, नटखट हंसी से भरी निशा, रंगों में सराबोर।En: Among the large crowd, आरव Aarav looked up and saw नटखट mischievously laughing निशा Nisha, drenched in colors.Hi: वह उसके इस अद्वितीय क्षण को कैमरे में कैद करने को मजबूर हो गया।En: He was compelled to capture this unique moment on camera.Hi: तस्वीर खींचते ही, उनकी नज़रें मिलीं।En: As soon as he took the picture, their eyes met.Hi: तस्वीर से ज्यादा, बातचीत ने एक सजीव एहसास जगाया।En: More than the picture, the conversation sparked a lively feeling.Hi: "तुम्हारी ये हंसी, ऐसा लगता है जैसे होली का असली मतलब मिल गया हो," आरव ने मुस्कुराते हुए कहा।En: "Your laughter seems to capture the true essence of होली Holi," आरव Aarav said with a smile.Hi: निशा हंस पड़ी, "कला और रंग, ये मेरा जीवन है।En: निशा Nisha laughed, "Art and color, that's my life."Hi: "बातों में लगे दोनों ने अपने अनुभव साझा किए।En: Both engrossed in conversation shared their experiences.Hi: आरव ने अपने भीतर के द्वंद्व को व्यक्त किया और निशा ने अपने कला के प्रति संकल्प।En: आरव Aarav expressed his inner conflict, and निशा Nisha her resolve toward art.Hi: दोनों ने महसूस किया कि अपने-अपने तरीके से वे अपने आग्रह का सामना कर रहे हैं—चाहे वह दृश्य रूप हो या कलात्मक।En: Both realized that in their own ways, they were confronting their desires—be it in visual form or artistic pursuit.Hi: फिर दोनों ने मिलकर एक विशेष परियोजना शुरू करने का निर्णय लिया।En: Then the two decided to start a special project together.Hi: कला और तस्वीरों के संगम को दर्शाते हुए, ये उद्यम उनकी संस्कृति और व्यक्तिगत अनुभवों का जश्न था।En: This venture, showcasing the fusion of art and photography, was a celebration of their culture and personal experiences.Hi: समाप्ति के रूप में, आरव ने नये दृष्टिकोण से अपने विरासत को अपनाया, और निशा ने अपनी कला की राह पर आत्मविश्वास के साथ कदम बढ़ाए।En: In conclusion, आरव Aarav embraced his heritage with a new perspective, and निशा Nisha confidently advanced on her artistic path.Hi: हुमायूं का मकबरा, गवाह बना उनकी इस अनोखी दोस्ती और सहयोग का, जहाँ वोटिव कला ने जीवन के रंगों को उकेरा था।En: हुमायूं Humayun's Tomb became a witness to their unique friendship and collaboration, where votive art had carved out the colors of life. Vocabulary Words:heartfelt: हार्दिकblossomed: खिल उठाhelpless: बेबसrain-soaked: बारिशों कीsoil: मिट्टीlush: हरे-भरेmerriment: मौज-मस्तीfragrance: सुगंधatmosphere: माहौलtalented: होशियारdangling: लटकाएcaptured: कैदstruggling: संघर्षemotions: भावनाओंdetermined: निश्चयartistic: कला से भरीsparkled: चमक उठींpriorities: अपेक्षाओंvotive: वोटिवshowers: फुहारोंcompelled: मजबूरunique: अद्वितीयconversation: बातचीतresolve: संकल्पconfronting: सामनाfusion: संगमheritage: विरासतperspective: दृष्टिकोणcollaboration: सहयोगcarved: उकेरा

We set up at Warnor's Theater to capture a Valentine's showcase where Fresno artists, organizers, and fans turned a historic room into a living network. Conversations with performers and community builders reveal how local support, small venues, and family-led production create real momentum.• live interviews with Ralph Edwards' collaborators and openers• With Brandon Freeman how Monday Salon evolved into Detention's growing scene• why intimate venues help artists scale sustainably• family-powered video and photography with Frankie Leal• Mia Mie on college, stage craft, and her Janet Jackson cover• Kenny Iko on post-show momentum and new music• Sadie Dahl on The Voice, pranks, and future collabs• the Morenos on resilience after loss and upcoming dates• the role of curators like Nisha in stitching the scene• crowd energy, dress code vibes, and behind-the-scenes momentsFollow all our amazing guest:Cesar - @betweenpodzRalph- @ralphedwardsmusicBrandon- @brandonfreeman559Nisha- @allthingsfresnoReggie- @culturefresnoMia Mie- @officalmiameiFrank- @frankielealphotographyKenny- @iamkennyikoThe Morenos- @themorenosbandfresnoSadie- @sadie.dahlAdrie- @_trueadrie21Follow us @ brokeboyz_ff on Instagram and TikTokIntro Music by Rockstar Turtle- Broke Boyz (999)Christmas Intro Song by Nico

In this episode of Truth & Shadow, the host reflects on the journey of the podcast, celebrating its 100th episode by exploring the themes of dreams, the shadow self, and the importance of psycho-navigation. This conversation with Norma and Nisha Burton, delves into the significance of lucid dreaming, the role of guides in inner exploration, and the alchemical process of healing through understanding one's psyche. The guests share their insights on the importance of lineage in dream work and the transformative power of dreams, emphasizing the need for community and support in the journey of self-discovery.To donate to me: Simply buy me a coffee @ buymeacoffee.com/truthandshadowpodcastImportant Links:We just launched our first course - Purpose Mapping with Lucid Dreaming and right now we have it at the discounted rate of only $27 - here is a link to that - https://lucidliving.thinkific.com/courses/purpose-mappingWe also have a free mini-class online - https://luciddreaminglucidliving.myflodesk.com/dreamalchemybundleMain website and links to both of their books there - https://LucidDreamingLucidLiving.comFollow our socials:Instagram @Lucid_Dreaming_Lucid_LivingYoutube: @LucidDreamingLucidLivingTiktok - @lucidliving1We will soon be launching an app and when that is live, people can find it on our website Also to work directly with Norma and her Journey to Completion shadow work system visit - https://NormaBurton.com and https://journeytocompletion.com/

Fluent Fiction - Hindi: From Johari Bazaar with Love: A Sari to Shine at the Wedding Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/hi/episode/2026-02-17-23-34-02-hi Story Transcript:Hi: जौहरी बाजार की सर्दियों की एक सुनहरी सुबह थी।En: It was a golden winter morning in johari Bazaar.Hi: जयपुर अपनी खूबसूरती और परंपराओं के लिए प्रसिद्ध है, और जौहरी बाजार इसकी धड़कन का हिस्सा है।En: Jaipur is famous for its beauty and traditions, and johari Bazaar is part of its heartbeat.Hi: बाजार की तंग गलियों में रंग-बिरंगी साड़ियों और चमकदार आभूषणों की दुकानें सजी थीं।En: In the narrow lanes of the bazaar, shops adorned with colorful saris and sparkling jewelry were set up.Hi: हर ओर ग्राहकों की चहल-पहल थी।En: There was a hustle and bustle of customers everywhere.Hi: आवासित इन हलचलों में, अराव अपनी बहन निशा के साथ दिखाई दिया।En: Amidst these bustling activities, Aarav appeared with his sister Nisha.Hi: निशा को एक साड़ी लेनी थी, जो उसे परिवार की शादी में सबसे खूबसूरत बनाती।En: Nisha needed to buy a sari that would make her the most beautiful at the family wedding.Hi: दोनों भाई-बहन बाजार में चल रहे थे, दोनों के मन में थोड़ी-सी उत्सुकता और घबराहट थी।En: Both siblings were walking through the market, with a bit of curiosity and nervousness in their minds.Hi: निशा के मन में सवाल घुमड़ रहे थे, "कौन सी साड़ी मुझे सबसे ज्यादा सूट करेगी?En: Questions swirled in Nisha's mind, "Which sari will suit me the most?Hi: क्या यह मेरी बजट में आएगी?En: Will it fit within my budget?"Hi: " जबकि अराव की चाह थी कि निशा सबसे खूबसूरत साड़ी पहने और शादी में आत्मविश्वास से भरी हुई दिखे।En: Whereas Aarav hoped that Nisha wore the most beautiful sari and looked confident at the wedding.Hi: अराव ने कहा, "चलो निशा, हमें पूरी तरह देखभाल कर खरीदारी करनी है।En: Aarav said, "Come on Nisha, we have to shop carefully."Hi: "वे चलते-चलते कबीर की दुकान पर रुके।En: They stopped at Kabir's shop as they walked.Hi: कबीर अपनी दुकान का सबसे अच्छा और समझदार दुकानदार था।En: Kabir was the best and most sensible shopkeeper in the store.Hi: उसका फैशन सेंस काफी बढ़िया था।En: His fashion sense was quite impressive.Hi: कबीर ने हंसते हुए स्वागत किया, "अरे, आओ भाईसाब, बीजीजी!En: Kabir welcomed them with a smile, "Oh, come brother, sister!Hi: हमारे पास आजकल नई कलेक्शन आई है।En: We have a new collection these days.Hi: चलो, देखते हैं क्या सूट करता है।En: Let's see what suits you."Hi: "निशा ने कुछ साड़ियां देखीं पर सभी उसे या तो ज्यादा चमकीली लग रही थीं या फिर थोड़ा महंगी।En: Nisha looked at some saris but found them either too shiny or a bit expensive.Hi: वह परेशान हो गई, निर्णय नहीं ले पा रही थी।En: She became troubled, unable to make a decision.Hi: अराव उसे प्रोत्साहित करता रहा, "कोई बात नहीं निशा, जो पसंद नहीं आता उसे छोड़ दो।En: Aarav encouraged her, "It's okay Nisha, leave what you don't like.Hi: और देखो।En: Look more."Hi: "कबीर ने कुछ अलग प्रकार की साड़ियां निकालनी शुरू कीं।En: Kabir started pulling out some different types of saris.Hi: "यह देखो, यह आपके ऊपर बहुत सुंदर लगेगी।En: "Look at this, it will look very beautiful on you.Hi: और यह, यह साड़ी खासतौर पर इस मौसम के लिए है।En: And this one, this sari is specially for this season."Hi: "धीरे-धीरे, निशा ने कुछ साड़ियां ट्राई कीं।En: Slowly, Nisha tried on some saris.Hi: लेकिन अभी तक कोई खास पसंद नहीं आई।En: But still didn't find anything special.Hi: तभी कबीर ने एक खास साड़ी निकाली, जो रेशम से बनी थी, इसकी कढ़ाई नायाब थी।En: Then Kabir pulled out a special sari made of silk, with exquisite embroidery.Hi: इसे देखकर निशा के चेहरे पर एक चमक आई।En: Seeing it, a glow appeared on Nisha's face.Hi: "भाई, यह साड़ी कितनी सुंदर है!En: "Brother, this sari is so beautiful!"Hi: " निशा की आँखें खुशी से चमक उठीं।En: Nisha's eyes sparkled with joy.Hi: लेकिन जैसा कि अराव ने कीमत पूछी, उसकी उम्मीद टूटी।En: But as Aarav asked about the price, his hopes shattered.Hi: साड़ी की कीमत उनके बजट से ज्यादा थी।En: The sari's price was beyond their budget.Hi: अराव और निशा दोनों का मन खट्टा हो गया।En: Both Aarav and Nisha felt disheartened.Hi: अराव ने संयम रखते हुए कबीर से बात की, "कबीर भाई, देखो, यह साड़ी हमारी बजट से बाहर है पर यह निशा के लिए परफेक्ट है।En: Keeping his composure, Aarav spoke to Kabir, "Brother Kabir, look, this sari is beyond our budget but it's perfect for Nisha.Hi: क्या आप कुछ कर सकते हैं?En: Can you do something?"Hi: "कबीर ने मुस्कुराते हुए कहा, "भाईसाब, देखकर अच्छा लगा कि आप दोनों इतने प्यारे हैं।En: Kabir smiled and said, "It's nice to see how dear you both are.Hi: ऐसी काॅम्प्रोमाइस के लिए मेरा दिल भी है।En: My heart is also for such a compromise.Hi: आपकी बहन के लिए खास डिस्काउंट।En: A special discount for your sister."Hi: "यह सुनते ही निशा और अराव के चेहरे पर खुशियों की झलक दिखी।En: Hearing this, joy gleamed on the faces of Nisha and Aarav.Hi: आखिरकार, निशा ने वह साड़ी ली, जिसने उसे आत्मविश्वास से भर दिया।En: Finally, Nisha got the sari, which filled her with confidence.Hi: जौहरी बाजार की गलियों से चलते हुए, निशा और अराव ने सर्दियों की उस धूप में साड़ी की चमक महसूस की।En: Walking through the lanes of johari Bazaar, Nisha and Aarav felt the sari's shine in the winter sunshine.Hi: अंततः, अराव ने समझा कि समर्थन और धैर्य महत्वपूर्ण होते हैं।En: Ultimately, Aarav understood that support and patience are important.Hi: निशा ने आत्मविश्वास से आत्मनिरीक्षण किया और अपनी पसंद में विश्वास किया।En: Nisha introspected with confidence and trusted her choice.Hi: जौहरी बाजार की खुशनुमा सुबह उनके लिए खुशी का संदेश लेकर आई थी।En: The cheerful morning of johari Bazaar brought them a message of happiness. Vocabulary Words:golden: सुनहरीnarrow: तंगadorned: सजीbustle: चहल-पहलcuriosity: उत्सुकताnervousness: घबराहटintrospection: आत्मनिरीक्षणcomposure: संयमexquisite: नायाबsparkling: चमकदारembroidery: कढ़ाईencouraged: प्रोत्साहितfashion sense: फैशन सेंसcompromise: काॅम्प्रोमाइसglow: चमकconfident: आत्मविश्वासhesitant: संकोचीemerged: प्रकटspecial: खासimpressive: बढ़ियाtroubled: परेशानsensible: समझदारgleamed: झलकshattered: टूटीpatience: धैर्यbudget: बजटtrust: विश्वासintrospected: आत्मनिरीक्षण कियाshine: चमकdiscount: डिस्काउंट

Friends, it's been a minute. I'm deeply troubled by the times - yet, I'm honoured to share this conversation with Nisha Moodley, an integrative leadership coach, community builder, and founder of the Center for Devotional Leadership.We have been in mutual orbit for years, including sharing a number of mutual friends and an appreciation for each other's work in the realms of cultural healing. While much of our current collective attention is fixed on the horrific revelations of the Epstein files, Nisha and I sit on either side of this inquiry to ask: What is the deeper work required of us now?Nisha shares her perspective on the “holy wail” currently rising from women and mothers—a fierce refusal to continue normalizing a culture of domination and extraction. We explore the “social codes” that keep men silent and the “alpha” masks used to hide deep-seated anxiety. Together, we look at the necessity of moving beyond the trap of being a “good man” to instead take a clear-eyed look at the shadow we all carry.Central to our talk is the exploration of matriarchy- not as a mirror of patriarchal power, but a return to the sacred circle, where our societies are reorganized around kinship, service, and a “soft-bellied” freedom that makes the world safer for all our children.Subscribe to The Mythic Masculine for new episodes in your inbox.For men who wish to do this inner work, you are invited to my upcoming immersion & online cohorts: * Awakening the Wild Erotic, Vancouver Island (April 24-26) * The Deep Masculine, Online (next cohort begins May 3) As well, don't miss the innaugural Cascadia Men's Conference, happening just north of Vancouver Aug 6-9th, 2026. LINKS* Nisha Moodley Official Website* Nisha Moodley on IG* Nisha's post An Open Letter to MenSHOW NOTES* The collective “quiet heaviness” and nervous system exhaustion felt in the wake of the Epstein files and global revelations of exploitation.* Why Nisha feels a “holy wail” of rage rather than shock, as these headlines mirror patterns women have navigated for a lifetime.* The danger of distancing ourselves from “bad actors” and how that prevents us from seeing the micro-ways domination exists in our own communities.* Ian's reflection on moving from being a “good man” who points fingers to a man who stands with others to say, “Brother, we can do better.”* A story from Nisha's youth about the “parking lot code” and how social pressure often forces men to choose status over the truth.* An analysis of the “alpha” performance—using figures like Andrew Tate—as a mask for deep-seated anxiety and a desperate need for control.* How we have all internalized systems of domination and extraction, even in our most personal relationships and parenting.* Why we often use outrage as a “safe” way to avoid the deeper, more transformative vulnerability of collective grief.* The unique healing and “dropping of the guard” that happens in single-gender spaces when the performance for the other is removed.* Exploring “matriarchy” as the fundamental antidote to patriarchy—shifting from a culture of domination to one that centers the protection of life.* The shift from “power over” to “power with,” moving from ego-driven heroism to leadership rooted in service to the whole.* A closing vision of “soft-bellied” freedom—the ability to live without armor and build a world that prioritizes the well-being of all children.ALSO RECOMMENDED: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themythicmasculine.substack.com/subscribe

Click the post for details on this episode! Welcome back to Open House! Randy Seidman here, coming to you with another two hours of the grooviest beats. Awesome times last month playing the DXB Boat Party in Phuket and at the mighty Mustache in Bangkok. Next week I'm in San Francisco for Valentine's Day and then back to Los Angeles for a quick west coast tour just before a busy March ahead. Today's episode is a special one with some of my favorite tunes in the first hour, followed by an exclusive session with the rising San Francisco based talent, SSEDA. For now, turn it up. Randy Seidman's Website Randy Seidman's SoundCloud Randy Seidman's Beatport Randy Seidman's Spotify Randy Seidman's Facebook Randy Seidman's Twitter Randy Seidman's Track List: 01. Marvel Riot ft. Celina Sharma - Say You Want It (Extended Mix) [Lift Me Up] 02. James Ponette, Winkar - Come Back (Instrumental Mix) [Bunny Tiger] 03. Anthony Sebastian - Akwa (Extended Mix) [MAKEMBA Music] 04. James Mac - Breathe (Extended Mix) [Sweat It Out] 05. HARDEN - Breathe (Super Flu Remix) [Casa Alta] 06. Silver Ivanov, Hreez, Monica Koleva - Come To Me (Original Mix) [World Up Records] 07. Yves Eaux, Azpecialguest - Indigo (Original Mix) [Magnitude Recordings] 08. Alex Konstantinov, Poli-Poli - The Beauty and the Whale (Extended Mix) [SkyTop] 09. SIN - Panto (Original Mix) [Bias Beach Records] 10. Nihil Young - Sweet Dreams (Original Mix) [UV Noir] 11. Avoure & Gio Santi - Always On My Mind [Biome Recordings] 12. Marsh - Stay (Extended Mix) [Interstellar] 13. Michael Calfan, Nisha, HARBER - Feelings After Dark (Kiko Franco Extended Remix) [Musical Freedom] 14. Tinlicker - Light Beam (extended Mix) [Anjunadeep] I hope you enjoyed the first hour with some of my top recent tunes. Up next is a special exclusive session with the talented Taiwan-born San Francisco-based artist, SSEDA. I recently had the pleasure of playing with SSEDA at Baccarat in Bangkok, and loved her musical vibe. She is rooted in deep, emotive melodic house and techno. Her sets are carefully crafted journeys that blend raw energy with clean sound design, which has led to stage time with Mind Against, Âme, Guy J, Notre Dame and more. But today she is here just for you. For the next hour, SSEDA is in the mix. SSEDA's Instagram SSEDA's Linker.ee SSEDA's SoundCloud SSEDA's Track List: 01. Johannes Brecht - In My Time Of Dyin' (Original Mix) 02. Agustin - Giri Dune (Original Mix) 03. Solomun - Dre (Original Mix) 04. Guy J - Karma (Original Mix) 05. Booka Shade, 8Kays - In White Rooms (2023 Remix) 06. Francisco Garcia, Abuk - Transitions (Original Mix) 07. Adriatique - Patterns of Eternity (Original Mix) 08. Julya Karma - vOne You Want (Original Mix) 09. Gespona - Slow Lasers (Original Mix) 10. Alexey Romeo - Set Me Free (SKLV Remix) 11. Jepe, Manu Strasse - Roots & Wings - Murat Uncuoglu & Alican Remix (Original Mix) 12. Stephan Bodzin Earth (Mind Against Remix) 13. Julian Koerndl - Self Portrait (Original Mix) Randy Seidman · Open House 252 w/Randy Seidman + SSEDA [Feb. 2026]

Hey everyone, and welcome back to The D Shift: Redefining Divorce And Beyond! On today's episode, host Mardi Winder welcomes fellow Canadian and self-love guru Nisha Goyal, a certified life coach with more than 25 years' experience in helping women build a stronger, more loving relationship with themselves.This episode kicks off with an honest look at those core beliefs so many of us wrestle with, feeling not good enough, unworthy, powerless, and why women tend to fall into the role of people pleaser. Nisha shares about her own story of burnout, how she realized she wasn't truly valuing herself, and what it actually takes to flip that script.Mardi and Nisha have a down-to-earth conversation about the difference between self-care (no, it's not just about spa days and chocolates!) and self-love, which goes way deeper. Nisha breaks down how to start treating yourself with the same kindness and nurture that you'd give to a partner, especially when you're feeling lost after a breakup or divorce.They also tackle some big topics, like why being child-free doesn't mean you have it any easier during divorce, and how societal pressures can make anyone feel like they're failing, whether or not they fit the usual “wife and mom” box. Mardi and Nisha share strategies for rewriting those old stories in your head, forgiving yourself, and making daily decisions that fill your own cup first.About the Guest:Nisha Goyal is a Self-Love expert and Certified Life Coach with 25 years of experience in the art of self-devotion. She has transformed her own experience of overcoming burnout into a passion for helping high-achieving women optimize their physical, mental, and emotional well-being. She specializes in teaching women how to date themselves and cultivate unapologetic AF self-love so they can create a life of abundance.For Nisha's amazing gift: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19QkwdsKNmXqZfOD6KyC10RyR-Rh1ec2K/view?usp=sharingTo connect with Nisha:Website: https://nishagoyal.ca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theselflovemaven/ LinkedIn:www.linkedin.com/in/nishagoyal About the HostMardi Winder is an ICF and BCC Executive and Leadership Coach, Certified Divorce Transition Coach, Certified Divorce Specialist (CDS®) and a Credentialed Distinguished Mediator in Texas. She has worked with women in executive, entrepreneur, and leadership roles, navigating personal, life, and professional transitions. She is the founder of Positive Communication Systems, LLC, and host of Real Divorce Talks, a quarterly series designed to provide education and inspiration to women at all stages of divorce. Are you interested in learning more about your divorce priorities? Take the quiz "The Divorce Stress Test".Connect with Mardi on Social Media:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Divorcecoach4womenLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mardiwinderadams/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/divorcecoach4women/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@divorcecoach4womenThanks for Listening!Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.Do you have feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!Subscribe to the PodcastIf you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.Leave us an Apple Podcast ReviewRatings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please...

Enneagram 2.0 on a Tuesday? You heard that right! Our hosts have some exciting news to share!In this very special episode, Urânio Paes and Beatrice Chestnut greet Nisha Advani, Enneagram coach and corporate consultant. In a heartfelt conversation, Nisha share meaningful insights on the enneagram, carreer and personal journey. Learn more about her:Born and grew up in Calcutta, India. Was middle daughter of 4 children. Went to Catholic school for 13 years and was active in many extra-curricular activities. Came alone to the USA at age 17 as a Rotary exchange student; attended senior year at a local public school, and lived with a Caucasion family for a year. Town had 5,000 people and almost everyone recognized me as "their" exchange student (my birth city had over 13 million at that time and I was a nonentity.) Came to USA to study psychology and in my path, after a few detours, found social/organizational psych which was a perfect fit. Always knew i had to be very well qualified and differentiated as in India life can be fiercely competitive and it is a numbers game as well. Got an MBA to support employability, worked in NYC for some years in corporate, got my green card through horrendous circumstances, and decided to go back to school for psych. Got married to a man who was well settled in India while I was working on my doctorate. He was very supportive of my finishing my studies. Changed my dissertation topic to do a more interesting cross-cultural study on conflict resolution and spent time in India collecting data. Was too difficult to do my research in India and eventually I returned alone to NYC. Had our first child alone while there and fortunately he got his green card soon after I graduated. Have lived in CA since graduation. Worked in OD and LD in different companies for almost 20 years and about 10 years ago started my own practice as a leadership coach and OD consultant. Volunteer in a South Asian domestic violence organization. Do mindfulness meditation and yoga a few times/weeks. Have 2 children, 1 little grandchild whom I learn from continuously including with my Enneagram lens, and am in close touch with my siblings, relatives, dear friends over the years. Grateful to be living in the Bay Area. Life is abundant!Like learning about the Enneagram from Bea and Uranio? Join a community of Enneagram enthusiasts and participate in live monthly webinars and Q&As with Bea and Uranio. Sign up for a FREE trial of CP Online membership at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://learn.cpenneagram.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Want to discover which Enneagram type you could be? Visit our webpage ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://enneagramcompass.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ to learn about the Enneagram test they created, Enneagram Compass.Please subscribe and share this podcast with others. It will help us out a lot!Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ChestnutPaesEnneagramAcademyFollow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/cpenneagramSign up for our newsletter ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://cpenneagram.com/newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠Questions? ⁠hello@cpenneagram.com

Send me a messageIs ESG really about sustainability, or is it quietly becoming a hard economic filter for who gets to trade, raise capital, and survive?In this episode, I'm joined by Dr Nisha Kohli, Founder and CEO of CorpStage, to unpack why ESG has shifted from glossy reporting to something far more consequential for supply chain resilience, risk, and competitiveness. Nisha has spent over two decades working across corporate governance, sustainability, and finance, and she's seen first-hand where most organisations are still getting this badly wrong.We talk about why ESG reporting remains broken for so many companies, and why ratings and rankings often mislead investors rather than inform them. You'll hear how credible, auditable data is becoming a prerequisite for access to markets, tenders, and green finance, especially as tariffs, carbon taxes, and mechanisms like CBAM start reshaping global trade.We also break down why ESG isn't just a cost centre. Nisha shares real examples where relatively simple greening measures delivered 50–60% IRR with short payback periods, reduced operational risk, and opened doors to new markets. You might be surprised by how often the biggest barrier isn't technology or regulation, but confusion, fragmented data, and treating ESG as a PDF rather than infrastructure.We explore the growing role of data, AI, and system integration in making sustainability usable at scale, why carbon pricing is about to become a core input into supply chain decision-making, and the mindset shift leaders need to make as sustainability moves from “business as usual” to business critical.

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All in a Day's Work features many scientists and many entrepreneurs, but rarely does it have scientists who are also entrepreneurs. That's where Dr. Nisha Maheshwari, co-founder and CEO of CaroRhythm, comes in. In this episode, producer Ahmed Ashour speaks with the recent NYU alum about their interest in the sciences as a child, their experience launching a medical device as a student, and their advice for scientists and engineers looking to enter the world of entrepreneurship. Nisha recently received their PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. They are interested in product design of non-invasive or minimally invasive medical devices for diagnostics and treatment of various diseases. Nisha is currently working on a low-cost system for the detection and quantification of peripheral arterial disease (PAD). This includes the expansion of the existing functionality and improvement of the clinical utility, accuracy and user-friendliness. They have channeled their passion for social good, activism, and engineering to be at the forefront of change in the healthcare industry as the CEO of CaroRhythm, a medical device company with a focus on bridging critical gaps in stroke care.For a full transcript of this episode, please email career.communications@nyu.edu.

Fluent Fiction - Hindi: Capturing Joy: A Photographic Journey at Chowpatty Beach Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/hi/episode/2026-01-11-08-38-20-hi Story Transcript:Hi: मुंबई के चटपटे जीवन से भरपूर चौपाटी बीच पर हलकी ठंड का अहसास हो रहा था।En: A gentle chill was being felt at Mumbai's lively Chowpatty Beach, full of excitement.Hi: मकर संक्रांति के अवसर पर आकाश रंग-बिरंगी पतंगों से सजा हुआ था।En: On the occasion of Makar Sankranti, the sky was adorned with colorful kites.Hi: परिवारों के चेहरों पर हर्षोल्लास की छटा थी।En: There was an aura of joy on the faces of families.Hi: बच्चे उछलते-कूदते हुए अपनी पतंगों को ऊपर उठा रहे थे।En: Children, jumping and frolicking, were lifting their kites high.Hi: ऐसे ही माहौल में करन और निशा अपने कैमरों के साथ विशिष्ट क्षणों की खोज में थे।En: In such an environment, Karan and Nisha were on the lookout for special moments with their cameras.Hi: करन, जो फोटोग्राफी को अपनी जिंदगी मानता था, आज थोड़ा तनाव में था।En: Karan, who considered photography his life, was a bit stressed today.Hi: उसे आने वाली फोटोग्राफी प्रदर्शनी के लिए एक शानदार तस्वीर चाहिए थी।En: He needed a stunning picture for an upcoming photography exhibition.Hi: मगर, भीड़-भाड़ और रंगीन माहौल ने उसे बलहीन कर दिया था।En: However, the crowd and colorful atmosphere had left him feeling powerless.Hi: दूसरी ओर, निशा अपनी चंचल आंखों से सामान्य दृश्यों में भी खूबसूरती तलाशने की कला जानती थी।En: On the other hand, Nisha knew the art of finding beauty in ordinary scenes with her lively eyes.Hi: "करन, क्यों ना हम कुछ पल के लिए तस्वीर खींचने के दबाव को भूल जाएं?En: "Karan, why don't we forget the pressure of taking pictures for a few moments?"Hi: " निशा ने मुस्कराते हुए सुझाव दिया।En: Nisha suggested with a smile.Hi: "कभी-कभी असाधारणता साधारणता में छिपी होती है।En: "Sometimes, extraordinariness is hidden in the ordinary."Hi: "करन ने गहरी सांस लेते हुए सहमति जताई।En: Karan took a deep breath and agreed.Hi: उन्होंने भीड़ का हिस्सा बनते हुए मानवता के सरल और सजीव क्षणों को कैमरे में कैद करना शुरू किया।En: They became part of the crowd and began to capture the simple and lively moments of humanity with their cameras.Hi: जैसे-जैसे समय बीता, सूर्य धीरे-धीरे ढलने लगा।En: As time passed, the sun began to set slowly.Hi: चारों ओर सुनहरी आभा फैल गई।En: A golden glow spread all around.Hi: अचानक करन की नजर एक अद्भुत दृश्य पर पड़ी।En: Suddenly, Karan's eyes fell upon a marvelous scene.Hi: एक छोटा बच्चा अपनी पतंग उड़ाते हुए खांटी खुशी से छलक रहा था।En: A small child, flying his kite, was brimming with pure joy.Hi: सूर्य की किरणें पतंग पर पड़कर अद्वितीय रंग बिखेर रही थीं।En: The sun's rays were falling on the kite, scattering unique colors.Hi: करन ने फुर्ती से कैमरा उठाया और वह क्षण कैद कर लिया, मानो समय थम गया हो।En: Karan swiftly picked up the camera and captured that moment, as if time stood still.Hi: निशा ने मौका न गंवाते हुए करन के चेहरे पर फैली प्रशंसा की झलक पकड़ी।En: Nisha didn't let the opportunity slip by and caught a glimpse of admiration spread across Karan's face.Hi: वे दोनों समझ गए थे कि असली खूबसूरती पल की अनायासता में ही छुपी होती है।En: Both understood that true beauty is hidden in the spontaneity of the moment.Hi: इस दिन के अनुभव से करन ने सीखा कि कभी-कभी सादगी में भी अद्वितीयता होती है, और वह अपनी नजरिए पर भरोसा करना सीखा।En: From the experience of that day, Karan learned that sometimes there is uniqueness in simplicity, and he learned to trust his perspective.Hi: निशा और करन ने चौपाटी बीच की इस यात्रा को अपने दिल में बसा लिया, जहां उन्होंने पेशेवर सफलता से ज्यादा अपनी दृष्टी की सच्चाई को समझा।En: Nisha and Karan cherished the Chowpatty Beach trip in their hearts, where they understood the truth of their vision more than professional success. Vocabulary Words:gentle: हलकीchill: ठंडlively: चटपटेadorned: सजा हुआaura: छटाfrolicking: उछलते-कूदतेstressed: तनाव मेंstunning: शानदारpowerless: बलहीनordinary: साधारणताextraordinariness: असाधारणताperspective: नजरिएspontaneity: अनायासताuniqueness: अद्वितीयताmarvelous: अद्भुतbrimming: छलक रहाscattering: बिखेर रहीswiftly: फुर्ती सेadmiration: प्रशंसाcherished: बसा लियाvision: दृष्टीmoment: क्षणhumanity: मानवताcapture: कैद करनाenvironment: माहौलflying: उड़ाते हुएglow: आभाglimpse: झलकtrust: भरोसाexhibition: प्रदर्शनी

Dr Nisha explores how digital technologies are reshaping religious life in contemporary India. Challenging the strict divide between the secular and the religious, she argues that digital media has given rise to new hybrid forms of belief, practice, and spiritual experience.

Fluent Fiction - Hindi: Echoes in the Ruins: Friendship in the Face of History Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/hi/episode/2025-12-24-08-38-19-hi Story Transcript:Hi: आसमान में बादल गहरे, धीरे-धीरे मंडरा रहे थे।En: Clouds were slowly drifting deep in the sky.Hi: एक पुराना खंडहर, बर्फ से ढकी हुई पहाड़ियों के बीच बसा, अपनी रहस्यमयी कहानियों को छिपाए बैठा था।En: An old ruin, nestled among snow-covered hills, sat hiding its mysterious stories.Hi: इसी खंडहर को देखने के लिए आरव, निशा और रिया ने सर्दियों की छुट्टियों में अपनी यात्रा की योजना बनाई थी।En: Arav, Nisha, and Riya had planned their winter vacation trip to see this ruin.Hi: आरव हमेशा से इतिहास का दीवाना था।En: Arav had always been a history buff.Hi: जब कभी भी मौका मिलता, वह प्राचीन जगहों पर जा कर वहाँ के रहस्यों को जानने की कोशिश करता।En: Whenever he got the chance, he would visit ancient places and try to uncover their mysteries.Hi: लेकिन इस बार, आरव को इस यात्रा में कुछ और भी खोजना था – अपने जीवन का अर्थ।En: But this time, Arav was looking for something more on the trip – the meaning of his life.Hi: दिन की शुरुआत खुशगवार हुई।En: The day started pleasantly.Hi: आसमान बेरंग था, लेकिन हवा में सर्द धुंध थी।En: The sky was colorless, but there was a cold mist in the air.Hi: तीनों दोस्त गर्म कपड़े पहने खंडहर की ओर बढ़ चले।En: The three friends, wearing warm clothes, set off toward the ruin.Hi: जैसे-जैसे वे करीब पहुंचे, प्राचीन इमारतें उभर आईं, जैसे किसी खोई हुई दुनिया की चिरपरिचित कहानी सुनाना चाह रही हों।En: As they approached, the ancient buildings emerged, as if wanting to narrate a familiar story of a lost world.Hi: आरव, निश्चल खड़ा होकर उन पर नज़रें फेरता रहा।En: Arav stood still, gazing at them.Hi: उसके मन में हजारों ख्याल उठ रहे थे।En: Thousands of thoughts were arising in his mind.Hi: इतिहास के इन निशानों में वह अपना मौजूदा देखकर कोई न कोई समाधान चाहता था।En: He wanted to find some solution by seeing his present in these historical marks.Hi: लेकिन तभी, हवा अचानक से तेज़ होकर बर्फीली लहरों के साथ बर्फबारी लेकर आई।En: But then, the wind suddenly became strong, bringing a snowstorm along with snowy gusts.Hi: निशा और रिया घबरा गईं।En: Nisha and Riya became frightened.Hi: "आरव, चलो वापस चलते हैं।En: "Arav, let's go back.Hi: यह बहुत खतरनाक हो रहा है," निशा ने आग्रह किया।En: This is getting very dangerous," Nisha urged.Hi: आरव के पास दो विकल्प थे – इतिहास के इस रहस्य को जानकर अपनी जिज्ञासा शांत करना या अपने दोस्तों की सुरक्षा का ध्यान रखना।En: Arav had two choices – to satisfy his curiosity by uncovering this historical mystery or to take care of his friends' safety.Hi: थोड़ी रात की तड़प के बाद, उसने फैसला किया – "हम सुरक्षित रहेंगे, चलो चलते हैं।En: After some internal conflict, he decided – "We will stay safe, let's go."Hi: "लेकिन जैसा कि अक्सर होता है, नियति का दूसरा ही इरादा था।En: But as often happens, fate had other plans.Hi: भारी बर्फबारी और तेज़ हवा की चपेट में आरव अपने दोस्तों से बिछड़ गया।En: Caught in heavy snowfall and strong winds, Arav got separated from his friends.Hi: खंडहर के गुप्त मार्गों ने उसे अपनी ओर खींचा।En: The secret passages of the ruin drew him in.Hi: कई मोड़ और रहस्य थे जिन्हें वह समझ नहीं पा रहा था।En: There were many turns and mysteries that he couldn't comprehend.Hi: हर कोने पर नए-नए पत्थरों का ढेर संजीवनी चुप्पी में संजीदा था।En: Every corner had stacks of new stones, standing in a solemn silence.Hi: तभी एक चमचमाता चाँद खंडहर के पीछे से झांकने लगा।En: Then a shimmering moon began to peek from behind the ruins.Hi: आरव ने खुद को एक अंधेरे में पाया, जहां से वह बाहर आना चाहता था।En: Arav found himself in darkness, from which he wanted to escape.Hi: उसने अपने साथियों को दूर बुलंद आवाज़ में पुकारा।En: He called out loudly to his companions.Hi: उसकी पुकार सुन निशा और रिया ने आगे बढ़कर उसे पकड़ लिया।En: Hearing his call, Nisha and Riya moved forward and caught him.Hi: तीनों एक-दूसरे को देखकर मुस्कराए।En: The three of them smiled at each other.Hi: आश्रय के लिए इन्होंने एक पुराने दरवाजे के पास जाकर ढंकों बना लिया।En: For shelter, they huddled near an old door.Hi: जब बर्फबारी थमी, आसमान साफ़ हो गया था।En: When the snowstorm ceased, the skies cleared.Hi: चांदनी ने खंडहर को सुंदरता से नहला दिया।En: The moonlight bathed the ruins in beauty.Hi: आरव ने महसूस किया कि असली खजाना तो उसके दोस्त ही हैं।En: Arav realized that the real treasure was his friends.Hi: इन दोस्तों के साथ संवाद और हंसी से ज़्यादा मूल्यवान कोई इतिहास उसे अपने दिल की गहराइयों में नहीं बसा सकता था।En: No history could be more precious in his heart than the conversations and laughter with these friends.Hi: आरव ने उन दोनों को गले लगाते हुए कहा, "इतिहास बोलता है और हमें हमारी जड़ों से जोड़ता है, लेकिन भविष्य केवल उन लोगों के साथ संजोया जा सकता है जो हमारे साथ होते हैं।En: Hugging them, Arav said, "History speaks and connects us to our roots, but the future can only be cherished with those who are with us."Hi: " उस ठंडे खंडहर में, तीनों दोस्तों ने एक-दूसरे का सहारा पाया और खतरा टला।En: In that cold ruin, the three friends found support in each other, and the danger passed.Hi: जब वे लौटने लगे, आरव ने खंडहर को अंतिम बार देखा।En: As they began to leave, Arav looked at the ruin one last time.Hi: यह अब केवल पत्थरों का धेर नहीं था, बल्कि एक नई समझ का प्रतीक बन गया था, जिसे उसने अपने दोस्तो के संग हंसते-गाते पाया।En: It was no longer just a pile of stones but had become a symbol of a new understanding, which he had found laughing and singing with his friends. Vocabulary Words:drifting: मंडरा रहेnestled: बसाruin: खंडहरmysterious: रहस्यमयीbuff: दीवानाancient: प्राचीनuncovers: उभर जानाnarrate: सुनानाgazing: निहारनाarising: उठ रहे थेsolution: समाधानgusts: लहरोंfrightened: घबरा गईंurged: आग्रह कियाcuriosity: जिज्ञासाinternal conflict: रात की तड़पseparated: बिछड़ गयाpassages: मागोंcomprehend: समझshimmering: चमचमाताpeek: झांकनाmoon: चाँदshelter: आश्रयhuddled: ढंकों बनाstorm: बर्फबारीbreathed: नहला दियाprecious: मूल्यवानroots: जड़ोंcherished: संजोयाsupport: सहारा

DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE GUIDE TO LIVING ALCOHOL-FREE HERE Megan sits down with special guest, Nisha Patel, LPC, the founder of The Nishe — a counseling and coaching practice rooted in helping people heal, grow, and design lives aligned with their values.Long before she became a therapist, she knew she wanted to help others. As a child, she would often say she'd grow up to be a teacher — and in so many ways, she did… just not in the way she originally imagined.After getting sober at just 24 years old, Nisha gained the clarity that changed the course of her life. She left behind a marketing career and pursued her true calling, earning her master's degree in Clinical Mental Health and becoming a Licensed Professional Counselor over a decade ago.In this episode, we talk about:✨ How sobriety creates clarity and opens doors to purpose✨ Navigating identity shifts after quitting drinking✨ Career changes and major life transitions✨ What it means to design a life around your values✨ Moving beyond survival and into a life that feels meaningful and groundedNisha began her clinical work as a DBT therapist and has since expanded her approach to include hypnotherapy, brainspotting, and Life Design & Transition Coaching. Nisha's coaching supports not only individuals in recovery, but also those navigating major life transitions — including career changes, identity shifts, and seasons of reinvention. Her work helps clients anchor into their core values while stepping into new chapters with clarity, intention, and confidence.Through counseling, coaching, workshops, and speaking, Nisha blends evidence-based therapy with creativity and compassion to help people move beyond survival and into lives that feel meaningful, grounded, and fully lived.FOLLOW NISHA ON INSTAGRAMBALI RETREAT 2026 USE CODE: GLOW200 FOR $200 OFFJoin the Sobriety Accelerator 90-Day Program $500 OFF with code: DRYJAN

This episode of Sober Motivation Holiday features Jess Lopez, Megan, and Nisha, who share their collective experiences and expert insights on maintaining sobriety through the holiday season. Hosted by Brad, the discussion includes practical tips on planning for sobriety at social events, embracing joy and gratitude, handling grief, and supporting loved ones on their recovery journeys. The guests highlight the importance of community, self-care, and intentional living as essential tools for thriving in sobriety during the festive period. ----------- Jess: https://www.instagram.com/mysobersunrise/ Nisha: https://www.instagram.com/nishapatelcoaching/ Megan: https://www.instagram.com/meganeileen3/

In this episode, Guy talked with Dr. Nisha Manek. She challenges conventional understandings of consciousness and delves into the intersection of science and spirituality. Emphasizing that consciousness is not a product of the brain, Nisha discussed the latent capacities of human beings and the need to elevate our levels of conscious awareness. Through her experiences as a medical doctor and her studies with physicist William Tiller, she explored the potential of intention to affect physical reality, the limitations of modern medicine, and the importance of inner work. Nisha also shared practical advice on meditation and the transformative power of silence. About Dr. Nisha: Nisha Manek is an internally recognized leader in the field of integrative medicine. Nisha's humble background from Kenya propelled her to transcend limitations: gender, ethnicity, and financial status. From Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where she graduated Summa cum laude, to the University of Glasgow School of Medicine in Scotland, Nisha's uncommon tenacity has driven her to ask difficult questions and pursue answers beyond traditional medical paradigms.  Nisha began her career in rheumatology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Recognized as Teacher of the Year in the School of Medicine, she brings storytelling as a core skill to bedside medical teaching and on the plenary stage.  But she didn't stop there. Nisha partnered with one of the world's most innovative physicists, Emeritus Professor William A. Tiller of Stanford University, and pushed the boundaries of what is possible in medicine. She is the preeminent doctor of information medicine, which intersects consciousness, biofield science, and rheumatology to improve human health.  She has authored a one-of-a-kind book, Bridging Science and Spirit, which closes the gap between two seemingly separate areas of knowledge. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. Key Points Discussed:  (00:00) - The Hidden Science of Consciousness They Never Taught Us! (00:41) - Welcome to the Podcast (01:11) - The Seeker of Truth (01:43) - Straying from the Truth (02:57) - The Invisible Essence of Consciousness (04:46) - Bridging Science and Spirit (07:25) - The Role of Intention in Medicine (08:07) - The Human Behind the Technology (09:42) - The Power of Consciousness and Intention (12:59) - Meeting William Tiller (22:59) - The Experiment with Water (26:40) - The Unique Feel of Different Spaces (27:13) - The Sacredness of Tiller's Lab (27:49) - Bridging Science and Spirit (29:11) - The Power of Intention and Energy (32:11) - The Potential of Human Consciousness (39:51) - Daily Practices for Consciousness (49:05) - Reflections and Personal Journey (51:09) - Final Thoughts and Book Information How to Contact Dr. Nisha Manek:www.nishamanekmd.com   About me:My Instagram: www.instagram.com/guyhlawrence/?hl=en Guy's websites:www.guylawrence.com.au www.liveinflow.co''

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In this episode, I'm joined by the extraordinary mother–daughter team Norma and Nisha Burton, co-authors of Navigating Liminal Realms: Psycho-navigation Skills for Lucid Dreaming, Trance Journeys and Altered States. Their work blends ancient psychonaut wisdom with modern neuroscience to revive a long-forgotten skill: how to consciously enter, explore, and return from the dreamscape, trance worlds, and psychedelic visions with clarity and intention.Together, we explore the unique ways Norma and Nisha use their complementary approaches to help others navigate the inner wilderness — cultivating practices that deepen self-awareness, expand perception, and reconnect us with the vast terrain of our own consciousness and beyond.This is a rich, fascinating conversation for anyone drawn to lucid dreaming, shamanic journeying, psychedelics, or the mysteries of the mind.Visit Norma + Nisha's websiteVisit Nisha's websiteVisit Norma's website________BECOME YOUR OWN SHAMAN Introductory Online Course For more information about Wendy's new visionary fiction book, Raven's Daughter, or to purchase a copy, visit Three Worlds PressVisit Wendy's website to learn more about the the Harmonic Egg®  Lucid Cafe episodes by topic  Listen to Lucid Cafe on YouTube  ★ Support this podcast ★

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223 As we prep for the holidays and turn our attention to food, we're revisiting our chat w/ cookbook author, registered dietician, and culinary school grad Nisha Melvani. Covered in this episode:-how living in many places (Jamaica, England, Canada, NY) has impacted her cooking-how food affects our bodies-how to eat more plants even if you're not vegan-how to welcome a career change even while raising kids-how sharing her recipes led to unexpected writing opportunities-how to have a healthy relationship with social mediaAbout Nisha:Cookingforpeanuts.com I @cookingforpeanutsNisha is a vegan Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with a master's degree in nutrition from Columbia University, an ACCET accredited trained Chef from the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City, and a published cookbook author of Practically Vegan. She currently lives with her three teenagers in New York City. Nisha uses her professional expertise and personal experience as a vegan to help vegans and nonvegans transition to a plant-based diet and meet their nutrient needs. She enjoys helping her clients with their cooking, nutrition, and health goals.About Nadine:Nadine Kenney Johnstone is an award-winning author, podcast host, and writing coach. After fifteen years as a writing professor, she founded WriteWELL workshops and retreats for women writers. She interviews today's top female authors on her podcast, Heart of the Story. Her infertility memoir, Of This Much I'm Sure, was named book of the year by the Chicago Writer's Association. Her latest book, Come Home to Your Heart, is an essay collection and guided journal. She has been featured in Cosmo, Authority, MindBodyGreen, Natural Awakenings,Chicago Magazine, and more. She writes a regular column about mid-life reclamation on Substack.

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Safely explore inner worlds through altered states of consciousness• Investigates drumming-induced trance states through shamanic journeying• Provides advanced lucid dreaming training, sharing techniques for inducing lucidity and skillfully navigating our inner cosmos• Explores the mindful use of psychedelics, offering guidance on setting intention, navigating the experience, and integrating insightsOFFERING TECHNIQUES from psychonauts ancient and modern, this profound guide helps you navigate consciously into the depths of the human psyche. Psychonavigation is the art of mindfully exploring the liminal realms of consciousness. This requires a map, a guide, and a clear intent, so one does not emerge overwhelmed and struggling with unexpected shadow material.Norma and Nisha Burton map the important connection between three gateways into the psyche's depths: lucid dreaming, shamanic drumming trance journeys, and ceremonial plant medicine journeys. With drumming-induced trance journeys, they explore the scientific effect on brainwave frequencies alongside consciousness teachings from indigenous cultures like the Sami of Norway and Huichol of Mexico. Their masterful approach to lucid dreaming transcends basic instruction, offering sophisticated techniques to not only summon but sustain lucidity and integrate suppressed parts of oneself. They explain how a mindful engagement with entheogens can be profoundly enhanced through these precursory mystical practices, creating a safe container for integration and meaning-making that honors the gravity of such experiences.With these skillful methodologies, ancient psycho-spiritual techniques meet ultra-current science to enable seekers to process and integrate profound encounters with expanded consciousness.Norma J. Burton is a counselor and theologian with academic degrees in Buddhist psychology and shamanic traditions. She specializes in trauma healing, shadow work, and Jungian dream analysis. Having apprenticed with indigenous elders for more than 30 years, she founded the Journey to Completion methodology and the Circle of Trust Healing Center.Nisha Burton has been a skilled dream worker and lucid dreaming practitioner for more than a decade. She's an award-winning filmmaker and a sought-after consultant on branding and emerging technologies for Fortune 100 companies. A specialist in visual storytelling and film-AI integration, she speaks at conferences and universities worldwide.www.thejourneytocompletion.conBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.