CulturallyOurs

Karthika interviews Yulia Denisyuk, a travel journalist and travel photographer who is an immigrant from Kazakhstan. Through the conversation, Yulia talks about her home country, her childhood in Estonia, her teens in Miami and then finally living in New York and Chicago. Her professional career too seems one of transition and movement as she navigated high school, undergraduate studies, the military, being on the front lines in Afghanistan and Iraq and then her MBA which led to a corporate career in New York. But Yulia left all of that behind to pursue a career in something that she really loved to do – travel and travel journalism.

An eternal wanderer, Yulia now takes others on amazing travel adventure to places like the Middle East, Jordan and Lebanon – places that have traditional been off-mainstream because she believes in the power of real and authentic connections with people and places.

Website: https://www.culturallyours.com

Episode Show Notes: https://www.culturallyours.com/podcast/yulia-denisyuk/

Episode Webpage: https://www.culturallyours.com/2018/12/11/yulia-denisyuk-talks-about-wanderlust-and-travel-as-a-way-of-life/

Karthika interviews Sachiko Eubanks, a photographer, entrepreneur and yoga teacher from Japan, who shares how her Japanese culture and heritage is something she relies on to help her navigate through her everyday. She shares how she finds solace in the Japanese culture of harmony, the dedication and structure of Japanese tea ceremony and the creativity of Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement. Now as a student of these Japanese traditions, she finds herself falling in love more and more with her home country.

Website: https://www.culturallyours.com

Episode Show Notes: https://www.culturallyours.com/podcast/sachiko-eubanks/

Episode Webpage: https://www.culturallyours.com/2018/12/04/sachiko-leans-into-her-japanese-culture-of-harmony/

We explore travel as I chat with Sonia Nicolson-Guðrúnarson – architect, artist, entrepreneur, wife and new mom to a sweet baby girl about her life's journey from Scotland to Iceland by way of Malaysia, Japan, Australia and India.

Sonia shares how each chapter in her life is like a season and she enjoys everything that life throws her way during that season. She always shares how Iceland landscapes inspires her art work.

Meet Minh Cao, a wedding and fashion photographer based in Philadelphia. Minh shares her journey from Vietnam, where she grew up, to her college days in Villanova university. She also has interesting observations about culture shock for someone coming into the American education system and shares how the different work cultures she has encountered through her career have helped her overcome her fears, find her voice and her creative freedom to ultimately take the entrepreneurial route in her life.

Karthika interviews Alicia Isaacs Howes, an intuitive healer, teacher and business coach who uses her management background and crystal clear intuition to develop a coaching framework and practice that connects people who are struggling with purpose, health, love, money or anything else back to the truth and love of who they are. Although Alicia knows that we are all the same underneath, she believes that the different ways we express ourselves help us learn about ourselves. Diversity makes life fun and interesting.

Website: https://www.culturallyours.com

Episode Show Notes: https://www.culturallyours.com/podcast/alicia-isaac-howes/

Episode Webpage: https://www.culturallyours.com/2018/11/06/alicia-isaacs-howes-connects-to-the-truth-of-her-soul/

In this special episode, author Cherie Dost interviews Karthika about her life story, how her experiences have shaped her life, and why she chose to start CulturallyOurs.

Website: https://www.culturallyours.com

Episode show notes: https://www.culturallyours.com/podcast/karthika-gupta/

Episode webpage: https://www.culturallyours.com/2018/10/05/karthika-gupta-makes-peace-with-all-of-herself/

Karthika interviews Nik Sharma, a recipe creator, food columnist and photographer, and author whose book SEASON came out October 2. Nik shares his journey from Bombay to San Francisco and his love for food and the beauty that surrounds it, and explains how the recipes he creates are often a metaphor for his experience of the world. 

Website: https://www.culturallyours.com

Episode show notes: https://www.culturallyours.com/podcast/nik-sharma/

Episode webpage: https://www.culturallyours.com/2018/10/05/nik-sharma-dares-to-be-himself/

This is the pilot episode featuring host Karthika Gupta who shares her vision and mission around CulturallyOurs.