Hear Me Roar with Ashveen Kohli

This Podcast introduces Jay Singh Sohal. He is the 2021 candidate for the West Midlands (UK) Police and Crime Commissioner! Elections are being held on the 6th May 2021! We wanted to sit down with Jay to get his opinion of what the big problems around Crime are! There has been lots of press about Police brutality, bias against Minorities, and tokenism of minority faces in politics. We wanted to ask Jay all these questions... honest and unfiltered! We talk about why Crime exists and what Police forces part is in this. Boris Johnson has promised 20,000 new Police officers in 2021 which is the biggest recruitment drive for Policemen EVER in the UK! What does this actually mean? And does that mean theres going to actually be more support against one of the biggest issue, internet fraud and crime! Join us to hear Jay's take on all this and let us know what you agree and disagree with! Sponsored by Veenpool Media! (Thank you to these legends for lending me the studio and all their editing and sound work!) https://veenpool.media/

Today I’m joined by Mervyn, who is the owner and creator of You at Yours. He is a body confidence photographer and the time i spent with him taught me a lot about the way you might be approaching your confidence wrongly. 

We’re going to talk about what he does and more importantly the purpose behind why he does it. How we helps people across the UK build confidence with his process and why its so successful in giving you confidence that can lasts for years. 

 

Check out his website: https://www.youatyours.com/

And reach out to him on his Instagram handle @youatyours

Reach out to Nanki at [email protected] or @letmehearyousingh ! 

Nanki Singh is Bestfriend to South Asian women looking to travel independently. She has significant influence on her social media handle @letmehearyousingh, and is the owner of Dreamy Trips Bali. Nanki uses her experience of moving across the world from LA to India to Bali, and as the owner of Dreamy Trips Bali she helps support a number of new entrepreneurs in her mentoring workshops. Listen now to lessons and advice to people who want to try travelling somewhere new in 2021 and living a regret free lifestyle!

Ever been in a toxic relationship? Felt the added culture pressures to go through with your engagement because of emotional blackmail? Well Dr Sonal Patel has too! We have an open chat about her break up with her Fiancé, the impact its had on her mental health, and how that lead her to create the @HighStreetDoctor Instagram!

We’re talking with Aysha Qamar, who is an incredible Editor for Brown Girl Mag, a writer for the Daily Kos, and board member for Thaakat. She's worked on the front lines of gender-based violence cases for many years. and has endless experiences dealing  with domestic abuse, specifically circling the south asian community. 

 

So this is where i have to apply a trigger warning as we are about to talk about some sensitive topics around gender-based violence. If this isn’t for you, then please do check out another episode of Hear Me Roar 

 

We are both well aware that this isn’t something most of us openly talk about, but these are situations that can happen to anyone, and so we should all know how and where to get help. 

 

We’re going to talk about some of her survivors and on top of all this i ask Aysha her advice for you guys, on how to get paid to write! How she did it, her tips and extending her support to anyone who wants to get into writing as a career!

Today we are joined by the team from House of Cinn, whose mission is to support rough sleepers across the UK, and in return we get to appreciate their amazing Cinnamon Buns! 

 

Their mission is to turn their baked goods into “acts of goodwill, by offering love, community and financial empowerment to those most in need.” I speak to them about what this process actually means, and the people that have inspired and impacted them throughout their work!

 

So essentially For every box of cinnamon buns that we buy, money is raised to help break the cycle of homelessness and get rough sleepers back on their feet. This is done with  a buddy and back-to-work system in place as well as baking jobs in the House of Cinn kitchens!

Kiranee Music is a co-founder of the Break the Noise Records with Rishi Rich! She has been in the industry for more than a decade and works closely on music with Jay Sean (Nakhre 2020), Rishi Rich, Netflix. Theres so much to say with this episode, as we sit down and talk honestly about her journey through the music industry. How she moved from the Brit Asia scene to moving to Mumbai and working at Universal Music. And how she ended up running a record label with the legend Rishi Rich.

Kiranee is a legend all by her own standards too! She has one of the fastest records to reach Number 1 on the iTunes World Chart for any British Asian Female Artist for “Tere Bina Nahin Jeena”.

She gives amazing advice and insight to aspiring artists and people around the control on our actions and how we can't let fear get in front seat.

Purpose, direction, work, support are all things we look for in life. Sam from @SamsOutlook is here to share how he got these and figured out is opposing passions. Sam has a clear gift of style an fashion, and is also one of the very few South Asian LGBTQ representations out there in the media. He works to advocate for the cause and has spoken on panels with BBC and Channel 4. He talks about how is derailed plans of studying medicine, led him to be a leading Scientist at the London Sperm Bank, and to his Influencer marketing career.

The reigning Miss India 2019 joins us today to share her experiences of the pagenting world. She talks about how her 5 years of losing the title built her to be the person she is today. What things she's learnt along the way and the things she changed to get her to the crown! 

She's such a great example of a person who has worked hard for what she has and without any serious privilege. 

Tanvi spills all about the training and process of getting to where she is today, and how it really has so little to do with vanity. 

On top of all this, I ask about her opinions on colourism and the affects of bleaching across India and how she believes we will overcome this conversation to a point where colour isn't even a talking topic.

It's rare to get a Doctor to talk at length about what its really like inside the hospitals. The biggest insight we got was from Adam Kay's book 'This is going to hurt'. But lets add another layer onto that, and ask "what is it like to be a brown Doctor in the NHS?"

We've been clapping and championing our healthcare services across the globe this year. And they do so much in trying to protect us all from the inside. They really are as close as we get to superheroes! 

Thank you to Dr Simrah Farooqui, the woman behind this episode!