In this episode, we speak to Sharanya Ramasubramanian, who is a badminton player turned fitness enthusiast. 

She shares her journey of transitioning from a badminton player to a fitness instructor, breaks a few myths around fitness and answers the age-old question, 'Is being slim, begin fit?' 

Sharanya also speaks to us about a few instances where she was body-shamed and how she tackled it. 

Listen on! 

In this episode, we explore how we acquire Height as a trait from our lineage. 

Did you know that you can grow up to 9 feet? 

We actually didn't and thanks to Cambrionics Life Science, we got to know so much through our conversation about the science behind our height. 

This time curiosity didn't kill the cat!

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This week we speak to Bhargavi Gopalan who is a dance scientist, educator and a dancer. 

She talks to us about how body and phsyciality plays an important in dance. 

She helps us understand how it's important for us to take pride in our differences, our bodies and it's ability to do wonderful things. 

Age, gender, Location no bar : this teacher took to zoom to launch her dance classes and has been doing it successfully over the last year. She continuously researches, explores about dance other than teaching it to her students. 

She thinks dance is for everyone and she might be right :) 

Who knows, maybe you would get your inspiration to start dancing after this podcast!? ;)

TW: Homophobia and Mental Health

In this episode, we speak to Vikas, a passionate lawyer who talks to us about their personal experiences, the LGBTQIA community in Chennai and much more. We are grateful for their honesty and for choosing to share their truth with us.

It was the first step for Petromax, Kruthika and Madhu towards learning about this community through listening. 

When we asked, what was the one thing they would like to tell our audience listening to this?

They said "There are a lot of things to tell! I want to say one thing to Queer people and One thing to Cishet people. I have to address these two groups individually. To the queer people, all I am saying is, you are valid, you are loved, you are completely normal. There is nothing wrong with you. You are completely okay. You are not alone. There are a lot of people like you. You can meet all of us. You can text us, you can find us on the internet. We are open about who we are, and we will help you. 

To the Cishet people, they said, "For people who don't know how to help, listen to us. When the people from the community say that they are going through pain or going through oppression, don't doubt it. Don't question it. Empathize with us. Take our voices, use your privilege and amplify our voice. Use your privilege, go to your Cishet spaces and make those spaces more accessible for us. When there are homophobes, talk to them, tell them their attitude is wrong and stand up to them. Don't do it because colourfultrying to save us! The world is so colourful and, there are so many diverse identities..."

Listen now to know more! 

Moms, while they are unique in their own ways, they also share some common opinions on a few things. 

We were surprised to hear how similar their views are, especially on 'Motherhood and body.'

For part two of this episode, we speak to Vandana, an entrepreneur, wedding photographer, YouTuber and mom to a four-year-old. 

She takes us through her maternity journey and shares some personal experiences on how she embraced the changes that this beautiful chapter of her life brought along. 

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Even though we are late to this mother's day party, we want to be cheesy and say : Everyday is Mother's day! 

We have with Renuka Shah, a passionate mother, trained interior designer who now curates sarees through Mulberrie Saree stores. 

She talks to us about motherhood, her confidence about how well she knows her body and her Experiences of giving birth. 

We loved to talk understand some very interesting things from her and would love for you all to listen to it!

In this last episode of 2020, we take time to speak among ourselves, the team of Petromax. We discuss our journey so far with Petromax, personal experiences and also reflect on some of the best moments of our podcast series! 

More exciting episodes coming your way this New Year! 

Stay Tuned. 

We wish you and your family a safe and happy 2021. 

It's that time of the month again! Our collab episode with Cambrionics Life Science.

In this episode, we address one of the most common skin issues faced by many of us today, Acne!

Are acne and pimples different? How are they formed? What causes it? Are the kitchen ingredients the perfect solution?

Ashwini & Aashritha from Cambrionics Life Science helps us answers these and share some interesting insights on this topic.

We also discuss the common myths and not to forget the unsolicited advice that we have all been a victim of!

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In this episode of Petromax, we talk about a deep rooted problem across the world, discrimination by colour. 

Anitha, our guest in this episode, shares some personal experiences she has faced in this regard throughout her life. 

What did it take for her to throw the beauty products that promised to lighten her shade of skin, to have said no to a pre-bridal skin makeover and grow to the person who she is today overcoming all those unsolicited comments?

Click on the play button to find out more.