What are social determinants of health, and how do they influence disproportionate rates of diseases? What is the source of bias against minorities within the medical community? How does this affect the way minority communities perceive medicine? This week, we wanted to dive deeper into some of the public health disparities we have seen with COVID today, and talk about what they are, where they originate from, and how they relate to mistrust in the medical field. Since there is so much information within this topic, we decided to emphasize a few major social determinants of health. Listen for a quality discussion on the intersectionality between the way people are raised, their ethnic and racial background, and how long they live!

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Welcome back to another week of Coronavirus! In this episode, we go more into the large-scale implications of this pandemic, both within our country, the US, and in comparison to other nations. Although there is much more that COVID has impacted, we decided to pack in as much as we could within the time we had, including aspects of Anti-Asian sentiment, vaccine rollout, and the increase in social/racial justice awareness. Tune in until the end to hear our thoughts on how this pandemic will shape the collective memory of the future! 

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The Coronavirus has now taken over our lives for over a year. In this episode, we are reflecting on how it has affected our personal lives; the good and the bad. As the pandemic hit everyone differently, as well as similarly, hopefully there will be pieces that we discuss in which you relate. 

In this episode we talk about our aspirations for the future as we go into our 20s. To give us life advice we have invited Amanda Fischer to join us, as she has learned to adult before any of us.  

What is love? This week, we decided to talk about the mystery surrounding romantic love. Listen for some deep reflections on our personal definitions compared to Internet definitions, our expectations, our thoughts on the stigma of "I love you", love languages, the evolution of love overtime, and the tough decisions you have to make when things aren't going so well. There's a lot to unpack here, so we decided to draw on our personal experiences to figure out what romantic love really means. Linked below are the articles we talked about when comparing our definitions of love to the Internet: 

https://this.deakin.edu.au/self-improvement/how-do-you-define-romantic-love

Welcome back for another episode on friendships! This one features more of our personal evolution of friendships, and how we hope they will continue to grow. Reflections include how we naturally grew apart from people, the impact of drama, and differences in communication between our younger and older selves. Small amounts of tea *may* have been spilled. 

In this episode, we start to talk about friendship as a whole- what we expect, what it means to us, and who we are with each friend. Give it a listen if you are looking for the meaning of friendship, or just how you can get to know us better! Stay tuned until the end to hear Hailey's tips on making new friends! 

We're Hailey and Sruthi, two college kids looking to document our experiences through this podcast! In this episode, we introduce ourselves, talk about why we started this project, and reflect on the origin of our friendship. Enjoy!