Mind The Baat

A kiss goodbye to 2023 and welcome 2024!!! I'm sharing my month-to-month growth and changes with myself, my friends, and my relationships as well as overall reflections for the year. Happy New Year's Eve!! Love you all and see you in the new year!!!

This is a mental health episode diving into my most vulnerable thoughts and learning how to effectively prioritize certain aspects of life when stress begins to creep in. I share what journaling means to me, a recent entry, and some journal prompts to inspire you, I hope you enjoy this episode and are encouraged to journal too! :)) <33

Happy Thanksgiving!!! This episode is about making friends and how similar it is to dating someone new. It is hard to meet somebody and put yourself out there, but I truly believe there is so much value in making new, deep connections because we learn so much about ourselves and gain a new perspective. I touch on my approach to meeting new people and then two recent friendships I've had: one that I jumped into WAY too quickly and had to drop after two months and the other that is meaningful and the start of a true friendship. I hope you enjoy and I am so grateful for all of you tuning in <333

please please please put this episode on at least 3x speed for how slow I talk (insert crying emoji). Caught in a moment of lonely insecure mush on a friday night, I record my feelings of what that feels like and just validate those feelings reminding myself that it's okay. I hope you can relate <3 ENJOY

Diving into my whole experience with midterms at a #1 public university compared to transferring from comunnity college. I describe the whole process of mentally preparing myself to do so, with the additional pressure from my parents as well of course to perform well. Sharing my tips I hope you find this epsiode relatable and my heart goes out to you all during the process. Love you pookies <33 ENJOY

WELCOME BACK TO TOO MANY THOUGHTS WITH MISHAL DURAE !!!!! This episode is just an all-inclusive reflection of the last three months of my not recording: getting off the waitlist for uc berkeley, moving out of my family's home, living with roommates alone for the first time, new college experiences, and experiencing #1 public university education. ENJOY

Sanjana Solanki founder & creative director of Solucky, a South Asian-owned, Bay Area-based creative brand, and magazine. With hundreds of subscribers, Solucky features themes, trends & collaborations: produced by an expanding team curating & planning up current content while maintaining efficiency. In addition to running this & coming brand, with all of its accomplishments to date, Sanjana is concurrently in a 3rd year at San Jose State University perusing her degree in Business Administration with a concentration on management and possibly exploring comp sci. Her interests outside of her passion project and education range from traveling with friends up and down California and thrifting as she is passionate about ethical consumption. In addition, she is pursuing Google certificates in project management and principal learning of Python.

We are diving into what it's like starting a business, managing a team & bringing creative visions and aesthetics into production through wardrobes, sets, and photoshoots to ultimately produce magazine issues for the hundreds of cult followers the Solucky brand has inspired. We discuss the hurdles that Sanjana has faced leading this entire enterprise as well as where the future of the brand leads. Is it possible to acknowledge her growth from building the brand, leaving it in the past, and moving on to more extraordinary things? ENJOY

This week we are diving into what the experience is like transferring from a California community college into the UC system. Getting into a good university right now is one of the most stressful processes for students. It has never been so competitive and many are opting for the community college route to complete GEs & prerequisites for their major, which would typically be done the first two years of undergrad, and then transferring to a 4 four-year institution. It’s less competitive and gives students more time to establish themselves, but it has its own challenges of navigating the system on your own.

We are discussing: TAG (transfer admission guarantee), imposter syndrome, competition & comparison, life at UC Berkeley, social life, maturity & biology majors.

Miranda is a 4th year molecular & cellular biology major at UC Berkeley. She transferred from Citrus Community College after completing three years of general education courses and major preparation prerequisite courses. Outside of lab & lectures, she enjoys going to the beach, art & crafts, and being out in the sun.

Share with your family & friends who are in college, high school & the UC system. ENJOY

Today I welcome a guest to the podcast whom I have had an interesting relationship with over the past six years or so, but still consider a close friend as we have been together for many crazy friendships, relationships, and high school drama. Introducing Chi Wei Chen who is currently studying accounting at community college and preparing to transfer to a four-year institution. In his free time, he enjoys gaming, working out, hanging out with his friends, and being my end-all-last resort help hotline for the embarrassing relationship choices I make.

Chi Wei was known throughout high school, and to this day, to be an incredibly social and outgoing person. Everybody knew him and he knew everybody, but being in his closer friend group I sort of knew that he had some pretty personal home-life struggles. In high school, it was natural to not be as open about those things and just keep them private, but I was curious to know more respectfully, and over the years I truly have seen him grow into a more independent individual day-by-day despite his circumstances and pity that people gave him along his journey.

Facing a challenging home life in Taiwan from a young age when his parents weren't necessarily always around, his mother would leave him under the care of close friends or grandparents when she traveled for months to years at a time to Japan for work. At various times he was neglected or in a room with smoking gamblers, but enjoyed the presence of his grandfather who spent time in the Navy and described as stoic, but warm-hearted. Transitioning to moving to America, Chi Wei thrived socially by making it around my friend group, a joke of course. He got into a pretty serious relationship, but there were still some family issues that persisted during this time where he was homeless and later on was offered to live with his girlfriend's family. His ex-girlfriend's mom adopted him in a way, seeing him as a son, helping with education, work & housing. Embracing his Asian culture, he strives to give back to her as he completes his transfer credits and forms his long-term goals. ENJOY

Recently went through a breakup? Yes... Okay great because I did too. This week I am sharing some of my favorite ways to romanticize your life to feel like you're in a scene of The Notebook or Dirty Dancing, you know, the feeling of that perfect scene of running into their arms in the rain. If you are stable and didn't recently have all your emotions spilling out of you then you too can indulge in these tactics of self-love to make your life that much more special and meaningful. Enjoy!!