What We'd Tell Ourselves a Year Ago When We Quit Our Jobs

One year ago, we did the scary thing instead of the safe thing… we both quit our 9 to 5 to chase this podcast full time. We talk about what it's really like working as a married couple, why you don't get sick days anymore, and why health has to come first even when work never stops calling.

We also look back at the success we had like the brand deals with companies like Honda, Perplexity AI, and COROS, growing to 350K+ followers, marathon training, meeting people we've admired for years, and even a spot on the Today Show.

Now settle in, get cozy, and grab your chai. 💛

New episodes every Monday at 7 am. Don’t forget to subscribe, and as always, we love you! Thank you for spending your Monday with us 💛

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Time codes

0:00 - WELCOME TO HALF PAST CHAI

4:07 - How this started

5:45 - We are learning to be okay with instabilities

7:56 - We work all the time

10:59 - Don’t do this if you want to have an easy life

14:26 - Brand is everything

16:08 - Work for free to get paid

19:38 - No one is going to tell you you did a good job

20:42 - It’s easy to not do work

23:20 - Working as a couple is hard

25:25 - Health is wealth

27:28 - NO MORE SICK DAYS

30:16 - ALL THE SUCCESS!

In this episode of Questions of the Week, we're reacting to your anonymous stories and giving our honest takes on situations involving family pressure, dead bedrooms, interfaith relationships, situationships, difficult in-laws, and everything in between.

💬 Questions like:

• What do you do when your partner chooses their family over you?

• Is a dead bedroom a dealbreaker?

• How do you raise kids in an interfaith marriage?

• When is it time to walk away from a situationship?

• Are your in-laws crossing the line?

Thank you to everyone who submitted a question. We love making this podcast a two-way conversation and getting to connect with you beyond the comments.

Drop into the comments and tell us: which question was your favorite?

Then head to our site and submit your own for a future episode we love keeping this podcast a two-way conversation 💛 https://www.halfpastchai.com/

Now settle in, get cozy, and grab your chai. 💛

New episodes every Monday at 7 am. Don’t forget to subscribe, and as always, we love you! Thank you for spending your Monday with us 💛

📲 Follow us: https://bio.site/halfpastchai

Donate to Team For Kids here: https://fundraisers.nyrr.org/suketu

Donate to Therapists Beyond Borders here: https://givebutter.com/hallie-patel-therapists-beyond-borders-nyc-marathon-2026-xtuif8

Time codes

0:00 - WELCOME TO HALF PAST CHAI

2:26 - Interfaith kids?

7:45 - Who comes first? Mom, Wife, Daughter?

10:31 - Eldest daughter wants to move out

14:03 - Dealing with Indian Family Oriented Mindset

16:17 - What happens when the sex stops?

20:50 - Situationship?

24:16 - How do I ask for couples therapy

27:06 - His mom stopped him from seeing me

31:57 - Stereotyping in your relationship…

34:07 - How to feel comfortable in your own skin?

This week on Half Past Chai… 

We are talking about MONEY! (Suketu’s favorite topic). We share all the numbers with you to be transparent about how we manage our finances. Talking about money is hard in a relationship and we are trying to normalize the conversation. 

If you want more info about finances: https://bio.site/suketupatel

Now settle in, get cozy, and grab your chai. 💛

New episodes every Monday at 7 am. Don’t forget to subscribe, and as always, we love you! Thank you for spending your Monday with us 💛

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Time codes

0:00 - WELCOME TO HALF PAST CHAI

3:48 - How much money we made Q2

8:36 - My thoughts on our new normal with money

17:55 - How do we talk about money in a relationship

It's somehow already halfway through the year… so we sat down and asked the scary question: is this year actually going how we planned? 😅

In this episode we're doing our mid-year check-in completely unfiltered: our best months, our proudest moments, the stuff that genuinely didn't go to plan, and the January goals we'd honestly forgotten about. It's funny, it's a little vulnerable, and if you've ever wondered whether you're "behind," this one's for you.

👉 We also made a free Halfway Check-In worksheet so you can do this exact reflection right alongside us. Grab it here: https://www.halfpastchai.com/halfway

Now settle in, get cozy, and grab your chai. 💛

New episodes every Monday at 7 am. Don’t forget to subscribe, and as always, we love you! Thank you for spending your Monday with us 💛

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📲 Follow us: https://bio.site/halfpastchai

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Time codes

0:00 - WELCOME TO HALF PAST CHAI

3:54 - Looking Back

21:22 - The Fun Round

26:52 - Looking ahead

This week on Half Past Chai…

• We’re joined by Kaitlin & Sourabh - partners in both life and business

• They’re the duo behind their social media where they cook, make chai, and travel, and today, they’re opening up about the reality of building a brand while building a life together

• We’re diving into the inspiration that sparked their journey, the hurdles of the Indian-American business experience, and exactly what it takes to brew a successful startup from the ground up

Now settle in, get cozy, and grab your chai. 💛

New episodes every Monday at 7 am. Don’t forget to subscribe, and as always, we love you! Thank you for spending your Monday with us 💛

Katlin & Sourabh’s Socials 👇

YT - https://www.youtube.com/@katsourabh

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/katlinandsourabh

Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@sourabhhanumant

Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@katlinsannan

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Time codes

0:00 - WELCOME TO HALF PAST CHAI

3:37 - How did you guys meet?

7:15 - Why did you start posting videos?

10:16 - How did your parents react to you two?

11:01 - What was it like to get introduced to Indian Culture

14:10 - Why do you cook?

18:20 - First time out of the country

21:18 - Quitting your job

26:30 - How do you guys work together?

29:28 - Are you getting married?

34:07 - Going to an Indian Wedding

39:50 - Travel Tips

42:58 - Favorite place you’ve traveled to

50:38 - Traveling is important

55:57 - Favorite food

This week on Half Past Chai… has your partner ever picked up something you love and just instantly been better at it than you? Because same.

We're deep in marathon training together, and it is humbling, hilarious, and honestly a little revealing. We're talking about different paces, different pain tolerances, and what happens when doing something incredibly hard as a team teaches you things about each other you weren't expecting.

Now settle in, get cozy, and grab your chai. 💛

New episodes every Monday at 7 am. Don’t forget to subscribe, and as always, we love you! Thank you for spending your Monday with us 💛

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🎙 Submit your stories: https://www.halfpastchai.com/

📲 Follow us: https://bio.site/halfpastchai

Donate to Team For Kids here: https://fundraisers.nyrr.org/suketu

Donate to Therapists Beyond Borders here: https://givebutter.com/hallie-patel-therapists-beyond-borders-nyc-marathon-2026-xtuif8

Time codes

0:00 - WELCOME TO HALF PAST CHAI3:24 - When your partner is better than you

8:25 - Our dilemma

11:27 - Our first race together

17:08 - Why do we treat our partner differently?

24:33 - The lessons we learned

This week on Half Past Chai, we're answering YOUR questions... and some of them caught us completely off guard. 😅

From relationship secrets and awkward conversations with parents to our thoughts on moving to NYC, future India trips, marathon training, friendships as adults, and yes... even questions about kids and our married life, nothing was off limits.

Thank you to everyone who submitted a question. We love making this podcast a two-way conversation and getting to connect with you beyond the comments.

Drop into the comments and tell us: which question was your favorite?

Then head to our site and submit your own for a future episode we love keeping this podcast a two-way conversation 💛 https://www.halfpastchai.com/

Now settle in, get cozy, and grab your chai. 💛

New episodes every Monday at 7 am. Don’t forget to subscribe, and as always, we love you! Thank you for spending your Monday with us 💛

Get 10% off GHEE here: https://iloveghee.com/discount/HALFPASTCHAI10

📲 Follow us: https://bio.site/halfpastchai

Donate to Team For Kids here: https://fundraisers.nyrr.org/suketu

Time codes

0:00 - WELCOME TO HALF PAST CHAI

2:34 - NYC / MOVING

4:32 - RELATIONSHIP & SOCIAL LIFE

13:25 - FITNESS / RUNNING

19:44 - INDIA / TRAVEL

24:51 - Quick Fire Questions

26:30 - BONUS Qs

This week on Half Past Chai…

We talk about potentially moving to NYC? We have lived in Indiana our whole lives and just want to change things up. Hear us talk about our decision process

Now settle in, get cozy, and grab your chai. 💛

New episodes every Monday at 7 am. Don’t forget to subscribe, and as always, we love you!

Thank you for spending your Monday with us 💛

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Time Codes:

0:00 - Intro

3:20 - Your questions and our truth

14:56 - Why we want to move

21:00 - What has it been like in NYC so far?

Naked Work From Home Tuesdays. Synchronized bathroom schedules. Poking each other in the butt. Telling your partner you find someone else attractive.

…Is that normal, or are you just built different?

From couples who sleep in separate beds to the ones who make up full choreographed dances together, we're covering it all. Spoiler: you're probably weirder than you think. And honestly? So are we.

Now settle in, get cozy, and grab your chai. 💛

New episodes every Monday at 7 am. Don’t forget to subscribe, and as always, we love you! Thank you for spending your Monday with us 💛

Get 10% off GHEE here: https://iloveghee.com/discount/HALFPASTCHAI10

🎙 Submit your stories: https://www.halfpastchai.com/

📲 Follow us: https://bio.site/halfpastchai

Donate to Team For Kids here: https://fundraisers.nyrr.org/suketu

Time codes

0:00 - WELCOME TO HALF PAST CHAI

2:57 - We’re like REALLY weird people

7:50 - Naked WFH Tuesday’s

10:29 - Drinking chai 2x 

12:18 - How was “it”?

14:46 - Sleeping in separate beds

15:57 - Finding other people attractive

19:34 - Snuggling every day

21:29 - Crashing my car

23:53 - Friends with my EX

25:22 - Dating from other religions

I say words wrong. I can't cook Indian food on my own. And apparently… I can't even do garba right… Hallie had to teach me once she learned. 😅

The South Asian community, especially Gujjus, let me know about it constantly.

This week on Half Past Chai, Suketu gets into all the flack he catches from his own community, both in India and online. But this episode isn't just for Gujaratis. It's for anyone who's ever been told they're not enough of their own kind… not Indian enough, not Black enough, not Latino enough, not whatever enough.

If you've ever felt like an outsider in your own culture, this one's for you. ☕

Now settle in, get cozy, and grab your chai. 💛

New episodes every Monday at 7 am. Don’t forget to subscribe, and as always, we love you! Thank you for spending your Monday with us 💛

Get 10% off GHEE here: https://iloveghee.com/discount/HALFPASTCHAI10

🎙 Submit your stories: https://www.halfpastchai.com/

📲 Follow us: https://bio.site/halfpastchai

Donate to Team For Kids here: https://fundraisers.nyrr.org/suketu

0:00 - WELCOME TO HALF PAST CHAI

2:42 - Why is there so much hate? Why we don’t fit in…

4:47 - Stop comparing yourself to people

13:19 - Surrounding yourself with different kinds of people

16:01 - Why my family didn’t own a traditional business

19:28 - Dealing with close-minded people

24:01 - 3 most valuable lessons