N.R.I. Woman

Pashmina was born in Thailand and brought up in a traditional Indian family in Hong Kong. At sixteen she met and fell in love with her soulmate Willian. They dated in secret for ten years – why secret, because he came from a very different culture and community – literally, one that is at the other end of the world.

He’s black Brazilian and their formative years together as a couple were extremely painful as they were shunned, ostracised and looked upon by her fellow community as a traitor and a woman who had no sense of value. Today, her little family of four, her husband, her and her two beautiful daughters live a life of compassion and understanding. They have taught each other to be steadfast human beings and live a life full of love with no racial boundaries.

She’s also built a successful career as an international best selling author of The Cappuccino Chronicles trilogy and the founder of the Online Authors Office, a platform to help other aspiring authors.

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Website: https://www.thecappuccinochronicles.com/

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Triveni Acharya is a strong, fearless, brave journalist and multiple award-winning activist. She is the president of the NGO,  Rescue Foundation.
The organization is devoted to the rescue, rehabilitation and repatriation of victims for human trafficking from different parts of India, and it’s neighbouring countries.

She chats with us about her day to day work, the hazards of fighting trafficking, the gratification of helping the girls reclaim their dignity and how it all started when she was covering a story as an investigative journalist for India’s largest circulated Gujarati newspaper.

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Website: https://www.rescuefoundation.net/

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No one plans to be messy, but over time with increased access to stuff, clutter creeps into almost everyone’s life. Shelina talks to us about how the concept of professional organizing is only just catching on, what one can do to declutter things that have sentimental attachments, especially after a bereavement and how her method is different from Marie Kondo’s method.

Shelina Jokhiya is the owner of professional organizing business, Decluttr Me. Since 2013, she has been working within homes and offices, providing focused, calm and practical advice, helping clients to achieve the correct organisation balance and clutter-free space for their needs.

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Website: https://decluttrme.com/

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Shobhika Kalra is a campaigner for wheelchair accessibility. She was thirteen when she was diagnosed with Friedreich’s Ataxia, a degenerative disease affecting the nervous system and movement. By the age of eighteen, she was bound to a wheelchair.

She says, “Disability is not something that can stop people”. She has facilitated building over 1100 ramps in Dubai improving accessibility for the many residents there. She hopes to build ramps in India so it can be more inclusive of people with different abilities.

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Aanchal Wadhwani is a Hong Kong based fashion photographer, entrepreneur and actress best known for her role in DBS Bank’s mini-series ‘Sparks’.

She’s learnt that there are still certain industries where women are afraid to touch. For example, photography. She believes there is a lack of female photographers because of societies ideals and the concept that heavy gear and equipment are for men only.

She would like to share the message that there are no boundaries for women and shares the realities behind working in different aspects of the creative industry while breaking the stereotypes.

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Matryoshka Studios
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Website: http://matryoshka.ws/

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Feng Shui master consultant Samita Khanna is back on the show to share tips on how one can make the most of the year of the boar in 2019.

According to her, this is the year of golden opportunities, abundance and windfalls. Everyone can benefit from the year if they grab the opportunities that come their way.

She also shares specific tips depending on your sign according to the Chinese zodiac at the end of the show.

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Feng Shui Arabia Master Consultant
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Shabnam Samuel from Frederick, Maryland is a woman of many talents with a number of accomplishments under her belt. She is a writer, author, business coach, social media trainer and a mum.

She talks candidly about her life to us, After being abandoned by her parents, Shabnam was taken care of by her maternal grandparents but knew nothing else outside of that lifestyle. At age, 27, She moved to the US with an estranged husband and 3-year-old son, having to raise the child all by herself, carve a niche for her family and find herself in a country she knew nothing of.

From being a girl to a woman, her struggles, trials and tribulations speak volumes in this first episode of our season 3, of NRIWoman Podcast. How did she find the voice she never had growing up and the strength to move on? She is our strong and fearless NRIWoman author and founder of The Panchgani Writers Retreat, who tells the world of her stories in her memoir ‘A fractured life’.

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Ruchi Gulati is a blogger, the founder of the first Thyroid support group in Singapore and creator of a clothing line for plus sized women, Curvy Craze. She shares her story of embracing her curves with confidence and conquering the world with love, fun and kindness.

Ruchi has been curvy for as long as she can remember. She’s also always been confident about herself and her abilities. About ten years ago she was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s, a condition in which one’s immune system attacks the thyroid making it hard for her to shift the weight.

She loves her curves and has detached from the stigma that comes with the word fat and hopes one day all women can embrace their bodies the way they are and for everybody to offer the same dignity and respect to people irrespective of their size.

She’s our curvy NRI Woman and this is her story. Until next time keep learning, keep inspiring and be kind.

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Malini Ohri our guest today is a certified beauty and health consultant and aromatherapist. She has a career in the health and wellness industry spanning over 40 years and as an aromatherapist for over 30 years. She has a passion for using and making things all natural. She chats with us about aromatherapy, its benefits, how to introduce aromatherapy into one’s life and most importantly how to pick the right products.

Aromatherapy is a holistic healing treatment that uses natural plant extracts to promote health and well-being. It enhances both physical and emotional health. Some of the health benefits of aromatherapy include reducing anxiety and stress, improving focus, alleviating pain, eliminating headaches and increasing circulation.

Malini is the creator of the aromatherapy line Saanté.

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Maithili Appalwar is a 22-year-old senior at Georgia Tech. She and her team won the People’s Choice Award at the Ideas to Serve Competition hosted by Georgia Tech’s Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship and they used the money as their pilot fund for Thrive.

Maithili is passionate about improving mental health in low-resource communities which is why she started Thrive with two friends.

Thrive hopes to be a platform that helps improve student mental health in India including mental health literacy workshops delivered to students and teachers by Thrive facilitators and daily meditation and gratitude journaling activities delivered by trained teachers.

She is our passionate NRI Woman and this is her story.

Until next time. Keep learning, keep inspiring and be kind!

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