It's Preeti Personal | South Asian Stories

Radha is a real life Indian Matchmaker. I think Indian matchmaking became a pop culture reference after the popular Netflix TV show Indian Matchmaking, something we talk about in the episode. Radha is a US Based matchmaker working with single professionals who are looking to marry within the community. Being first generation herself, she knows the challenges with finding a partner that fits you culturally both with your Western values and Eastern background. Consider her the modern day “auntie”.

Time Stamps:

00:00- Introduction

3:36- Get to know Radha

6:15- What is matchmaking?

7:25- The talking stage

10:15- Topics to avoid on a first date

13:36- Who should pay on a first date?

15:16- Females making the first move

18:36- Red flags when dating

21:28- Should we concentrate on one person at a time?

22:29- What is dating?

27:28- Ghosting

28:02- How to know if they’re serious about you

30:06- Do looks matter?

32:17- How Radha got into Matchmaking

39:16- Quickfire round

Love,

Preeti x

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Ashley is a researcher of sexual abuse in South Asian communities, She has recently completed her research titled “Reclaiming Shakit: The journey to wellbeing for South Asian immigrant women survivors of sexual violence”. She has been advocating for survivors for the last four years, after noticing the gaps in the current systems that support South Asian survivors, having been through it herself. She felt it was important to understand the lived experience of South Asian survivors who are often left in the margins of sexual violence research and practice.

We talk about what consists of sexual abuse, the culture of silence, the concept of honour (izzat) and the framework she designed to aid survivors with healing.

I learnt so much from this episode about something that isn’t widely spoken about yet so common. I hope you do too

Love,

Preeti x

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Helplines:

The Survivors Trust:

01788 550554

[email protected]

https://www.thesurvivorstrust.org

SurvivorsUK

02035983898

[email protected]

Rape Crisis

0808 802 9999

https://rapecrisis.org.uk/get-help/ (live chat)

Safeline

[email protected]

0808 800 5005

https://www.safeline.org.uk

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Tanvi is a corporate girl by day and lifestyle blogger by night. She utilises her platform to educate and raise awareness of important causes such as equality and sustainability as well as providing top tips and honest recommendations for all things fashion, beauty & travel. 

We talk about conscious consumerism, thrifting, sustainable fashion and how she started her blogging journey. Hope you enjoy the episode!

 Love, Preeti x

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Youtube: www.youtube.com/c/Tanvix 

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Priyanka is a Marketing Professional and Community Strategist at Slashie Connects, a brand of Brown Girl Magazine. Her goal at Slashie is to create an empowered community of South Asian entrepreneurs and creatives who are looking to grow their businesses. 

We talk about investing in ourselves, Priyanka talks about her mindset course whilst I share my story on getting a nutritionist and my experience with it. Hope you enjoy the episode! 

Love, Preeti x

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IG- https://www.instagram.com/pwallyy/

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Today we’re going deep and having a DMC (deep meaningful chat) about about forgiveness, self acceptance, kindness and journalling. I’m joined by Vaneeta Kaur, a UK creative writer, author and emotional wellness advocate. She began writing at a tender age as an emotional outlet for her experiences of anxiety and depression. As someone that deals with a chronic illness due to a rare condition, self-care is an important part of her daily life.

At the age of seventeen she began her first novel Broken Branches and the sequel available to pre-order now called brimming boughs. The Silver Lining Series is a supernatural contemporary fictional romance that emphasis gratefulness, love, forgiveness, happiness and so much more.

Through her creative writing on social media she encourages kindness, compassion, empathy, self-care, and wholeness. She also shares her own experiences from her emotional wellness journey.

Hope you enjoy the episode!

Love,

Preeti x

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Vaneeta’s Book & Social Media Links:

Broken Branches: https://amzn.to/3upgsMY

Brimming Boughs: https://amzn.to/3uhMZ7s

IG- https://www.instagram.com/missvaneetakaur/

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Dating apps are the modern way of dating so today I’m joined by Meera, you might know Meera from the popular UK dating show called Take me out, she was a contestant on season 11. Meera is also a co-host of a dating and relationship radio show called your game and the perfect person in my eyes to talk about all things dating apps.

We share personal stories about our experiences with dating apps from what we look for when we’re swiping, the dating apps we use and the alternatives that the South Asian community has instead of dating apps.

That saying, I’m 100% that girl who will download a dating up and then delete it 3 hours later and not ashamed of that. Saying that, dating apps are great because you’re connected to so many people and obvs the swiping is fun, but there’s a part of me that’s always wary about them because of the cat-fishing and people’s true intentions. I’m very old school and always thought the best way to meet people for dates is through friends or they’ll magically appear, but that doesn’t mean I don’t give dating apps a chance, and on the rare occasion that I do, I always remind myself that there are people like me on those apps.

Hope you enjoy the episode!

Love,

Preeti x

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Meera’s Links:

IG- https://www.instagram.com/meerasharm/

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Ishpreet is a Sikh author and poet living in London. She’s such a kind and genuine soul and I’m so glad that we’ve become instagram friends.

This episode is all about mental health in the South Asian community, toxic positivity and Ishpreet’s journey in becoming a published author because in October 2020, Ishpreet published her first book called Recovery, penciling her journey of self acceptance and personal development.

Hope you enjoy the episode!

Love,

Preeti x

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Ishpreet’s Links:

Order her book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3lDX7UU

IG- https://www.instagram.com/ishpreetwrites/

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In June 2019, KJ was walking home at night when she was randomly attacked and stabbed in the leg, since then she’s has been on a journey of recovery, transforming her trauma and helping other people through her instagram page ‘transforming trauma’. I’ve linked KJ’s instagram down below if you want to check it out, it’s a really awesome page and I love her courage for starting it. The last week has been really heavy especially with everything going on with women’s safety and the news of Sarah Everard. The news of her disappearance and murder has opened up the conversation on women’s safety and the fact that a lot of us don’t feel safe when walking home at night even though we’ve taken the massive list of precautions that we’re “supposed” to. Statistics show that 51% of the UK population are female and among all females 80% have experienced sexual harassment. Something that I did want to say that’s been on my chest, I feel like in the last week a lot of people sharing posts about women’s safety are women, but barely any men. We need men to be an ally in this because a lot of times the onus has been on women to protect themselves from men when actually we should be educating men on how to not be a threat. Love, Preeti x P.s: This episode was recorded in August 2020 TW: Violence ———————————————————— KJ Socials: IG- https://www.instagram.com/transforming_trauma/ ———————————————————— Don’t forget to follow me on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/preetipersonal/ TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZSvmbM63/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/preetipersonal  Clubhouse: @preetipersonal If you prefer, you can also email me: [email protected] Don’t forget to follow/ subscribe to Podcast and leave a review on Apple Podcasts ———————————————————— Music: Upbeat-party by scottholmesmusic.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com

Erim Kaur is a social media influencer with over 220,000 instagram followers, a female CEO of her and own hair oil brand called ByErim. We’ll be chatting about her mindset when it comes to social media, the lessons she’s learnt whilst being a female CEO and her goals and visions for the future.

Hope you enjoy the episode!

Love,

Preeti x

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Erim’s Socials:

IG- https://www.instagram.com/erim/

ByErim- https://www.instagram.com/byerim/

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Today’s a really special episode, because we’re talking about Bhangra and Friendships. For people that might not know I’ve been a professional Bhangra dancer for 6 years now, with 6 competitions under my belt and it was a hobby that was a big part of my early twenties and today I’m joined by Jessica, a 3 time award winning UK best female dancer and a very dear friend. 

Jessica actually came with me to my first ever Bhangra class and I’m so glad that we were able to start our Bhangra journey’s together and we’ve been friends for a really long time so we thought we’d do a friendship test to you know reminisce. You may of heard Jessica on the podcast before because she was a guest in Season 1 episode 5 & 6 we were spoke about colourism, first dates and heartbreaks.

 Now before we get into the episode I do want to explain a bit about what Bhangra is for anyone listening who doesn’t know, Bhangra is a dance that originate d in North India, specifically in an state called Punjab which is one of the states known for agriculture. The dance was traditionally used to celebrate a good harvest. When residents from Punjab immigrated to the western world to countries such as the UK, USA and Canada they took that culture with them and Bhangra has been past down from generations. 

In the UK, there are various Bhangra competitions that have been formed over the years with one of them The Bhangra Showdown which started in 2007 by students at Imperial College London, which has now become one of the biggest Bhangra competitions in the world, hosting in legendary venues like Wembley Arena and the Hammersmith Apollo. 

Join us as we talk about how we first started Bhangra, what motivated us to continue dancing and the impact it has had on our lives. (P.s this episode is funny) Hope you enjoy the episode! 

Love, Preeti x 

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Farmers Protest: 

Charities: 

https://www.khalsaaid.org 

Social Media Accounts: 

https://www.instagram.com/sikhexpo/

https://www.instagram.com/tractor2timeline/

https://www.instagram.com/grewaltwins/

https://twitter.com/amaanbali

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Farmers Protest Articles: 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-55937894 https://bit.ly/383ELal 

https://bit.ly/3qdF3BD https://econ.st/2OcPFna

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UK Bhangra Articles: 

https://bit.ly/3b5X3Ka

https://bit.ly/3bSP95R 

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