Difficult-ish

we are so used to racist and negative comments from "friends" and family and it's kinda sad that we had to become normalized to it from a young age. in this episode, we talk about the different comments we got because of our south asian culture and our religion and how much it affects us as adults now. 

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our second advice session! with our first advice session was highly favorited, and with there being so many more topics of discussion in the south asian community, we had to come back around to talk up some more. listen to your two favorite very amateur south asian co-hosts speaks on topics like finances of moving out, multiple incomes, anxiety about the future, living life for yourself, and a few more gems that we're always excited to share! 

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everyone knows how hard it is to be independent if you live in a south asian household. although it is with the intention of love, they want to cook for you and essentially do everything for you where you feel like you don't have your own identity and freedom. as two bangladeshi young adults, we really had to learn how to find ourselves outside of our families. in this episode, we talk about how we gained independence from our parents, but most importantly, how we learned to get out of our comfort zones and do things even when it's scary. we hope you enjoy!

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growing up as a children of immigrants, we didn't earn much money. we had to take frugal alternatives when doing basic things in life. but now, we're able to buy the expensive berries or take longer showers and we are so grateful. 

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in this episode, we talk about how hard it is to make friends with other south asian people. although they have brought many benefits to us, they can also be very judgmental, have a superiority complex, talk badly behind your back, and so much more. from one of us being surrounded by no brown people and the other having mostly brown people in their community, i hope you can resonate with some part of our experiences!

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we live in a time that pushes the idea that the journey towards success means less sleep, less self care, and no time to waste. and unfortunately, the two of us fall into this funnel more often than not. we have big dreams that we're trying to fulfill. we get caught in tunnel visioning towards our goals, and forget all of the other wonderful things that life has to offer overworking and burnout is real, as much as we like to push them aside and mask it as "hustling". we kind of made this episode to remind ourselves to put the phone down more often and take a second to appreciate where we've gotten in out lives, compared to where we were a few years back, and we hope that our words inspire you to do the same 

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we both moved out! in today's episode, we talk about the reasons why we both moved out of our parents' homes and why it's been so difficult in a south asian society. we give you some of our best tips with how to do it and how living alone will help our mental health and creativity process. we are so excited to talk so much more on this topic, enjoy! 

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we asked our followers on instagram to send us anything and everything they're seeking advice towards, and here are our responses! some of the topics that we chose to discuss this episode include: navigating strict parents and prioritizing mental health, the guilt of spending/saving money in a south asian family, starting over alone in a new city, and so many more! we hope we're able to help some of you guys better digest the issues we're all going through, and explain there's always more to understand on the things we have difficulty comprehend. we're not experts, but we think we're pretty seasoned! 

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we had to put a lot of our dreams on pause because we had to responsibilities and expectations at home. we couldn't just leave because of money burdens, taking care of our parents, or maybe even because in south asian culture, the girl is expected to just stay at home. it's hard to be patient when you see your friends or family members moving forward and doing things that you've always wanted to do. in this episode, we discuss some of the dreams that we had to wait on due to the restrictions we had at home.  

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in south asian culture, it is really hard to express yourself through fashion because you're subject to negative comments from your parents or the community, your body becomes extremely sexualized, or you feel like you can't comfortably wear something because of your gender. one of us dealt with comments of being less masculine because of their experimentation with fashion while the other constantly heard comments about covering up when in the presence of male family members or visitors. in this episode, we talk about our different male/ female perspectives with fashion and all of the difficult times we had it with it growing up. 

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