The Open Hand Show

Shaguna Dhawal: Big Dreams, Crown Energy & a Glow-Up That Goes Deep 👑✨

Architect. Pageant contender. Spiritual coach. Animal welfare advocate. Shaguna Dhawal has multiple tabs open—and big dreams on every one. 👑✨

On The Open Hand Show, Shaguna joins RJ Chatty for a candid conversation about rebuilding confidence, her 25 kg-plus weight-loss journey, and stepping into pageantry, where she earned the titles Miss Intellectual and Miss Inspirational.

We get into showing up when motivation ghosts you, her personal approach to spirituality and tarot, and why Chandigarh’s architecture still has her heart. Plus, she shares the story behind Save a Soul, her animal welfare community, and her dream of winning an international crown. 🐾🏛️

Stay for the rapid fire: heels, dark chocolate, Diljit—and a dream farmhouse packed with animals. 💅🍫

Hit play for a conversation about starting over, dreaming bigger, and giving yourself room to grow. 🎧

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Choosing fine arts when your family says “there’s no future in it”? Reez went ahead anyway. 🎨✨

On The Open Hand Show, RJ Chatty sits down with Reez, artist and Fine Arts in-charge at Chandigarh University, for an honest conversation about following your passion when approval isn’t guaranteed.

From painting the female form and facing judgment to finding buyers who connect with her work, Reez shares what it takes to keep creating. We talk late-night painting sessions, becoming her own artistic muse, creative blocks, and the emotional moment a viewer saw herself in a painting. 🖤

Plus: her terracotta project, Made by Mitti, supporting local potters, her love for Van Gogh and Dalí, and a rapid-fire round with some very Punjabi priorities. 👀🏺

For anyone pursuing a creative dream while still explaining it at home—this one’s for you. 🎧

#Reez #TheOpenHandShow #Art #CreativeLife #WomenInArt #Terracotta #Chandigarh

At eight, Ridhima saw a crown on TV and thought, “I want that.” Now she’s the first runner-up of Miss Punjab 2026—and she taught herself much of what she knows through YouTube. 📱👑

On The Open Hand Show, Ridhima shares what it felt like to step onto the pageant stage, why the final Q&A meant so much to her, and the moment she heard her name announced. We also meet the Ridhima behind the poised pageant persona: spontaneous, emotional, funny, and absolutely still eating chole bhature. 🫶

Next on her vision board? Representing India at Miss World. 🌍✨

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She started with one stubborn goal: build abs. What followed was a crash course in bad diets, burnout and why fitness advice on the internet doesn’t always hit.

In this episode of The Open Hand Show, RJ Chatty sits down with Mallika Arora—biochemist, fitness coach, Battleground Season 2 contestant and founder of MAG—to unpack her journey from being underestimated to building a global fitness community.

They get real about:

🔥 Why your “perfect” diet might actually be failing you
🧠 How fitness begins with the mind, not the mirror
📱 The problem with Instagram and YouTube fitness experts
💪 What competing on a reality show is actually like
🌿 Starting over in Chandigarh and rebuilding from scratch
🚀 Her plans to launch her own health and wellness products

No shortcuts. No fake motivation. Just an honest conversation about discipline, setbacks, self-belief—and earning the whole garden instead of waiting for flowers.

#TheOpenHandShow #MallikaArora #FitnessJourney #MAG #HealthAndWellness #IndianPodcast #FitnessCoach

What happens when beauty, business and a mother–daughter dream come together? You get Nail and Lash Studio. 💅✨

This week on The Open Hand Show, Jasmeet Kaur takes us behind the scenes of building her beauty brand from scratch—starting with professional lash training in Singapore, finding her first customer through Snapchat and surviving the ultimate entrepreneurial plot twist: launching just before COVID. 😮‍💨

We get into:

💖 Building a business with her mother
📱 Why social media became her biggest growth engine
🎓 Training students who went on to become entrepreneurs
🧑‍🎤 The surprising rise of men getting acrylics, matte-black nails and skull art
📌 Gen Z’s obsession with Pinterest-inspired statement nails
💸 Staff struggles, off-seasons and customers asking for discounts on discounts
🚀 Her plans to take Nail and Lash Studio beyond the Tricity

From three-hour nail-art sessions to clients who have stayed with her since day one, Jasmeet’s journey proves that the prettiest businesses still require serious grit. 🔥

And yes—the rapid fire reveals her loyalty to pizza, sneakers, stocks, Karan Aujla and rajma chawal. 😂

Press play for a conversation packed with beauty trends, business lessons and some seriously unapologetic ambition. 🎧

#TheOpenHandShow #JasmeetKaur #NailAndLashStudio #BeautyEntrepreneur #WomenInBusiness #MotherDaughterBusiness #BeautyIndustry #NailArt #LashArtist #GenZTrends #Chandigarh #Mohali #Podcast

Six months ago, Dikshpreet Kaur (Diksha to friends) wasn’t even sure modelling was her calling. Then she learnt her ramp walk just two days before the pageant… stepped onto the stage… and walked away as Miss Punjab 2026. Casual. 👑✨

In this episode of The Open Hand Show, Dikshpreet gets real about chasing the spotlight, finding the courage to follow an unconventional dream, and transforming from a shy college student into a confident pageant winner.

We talk about:

✨ Winning Miss Punjab with almost no ramp experience
🎤 Her love for the stage since the age of five
💪 Overcoming body shaming and working on her mental health
👑 Why confidence matters more than conventional beauty
📚 Balancing final exams, photoshoots and pageant life
❤️ Self-love—without becoming a narcissist
🏙️ How Chandigarh helped her rebuild and rediscover herself
🎬 Her next big dream: becoming an actor

Her winning Punjabi value? Chardi Kala—the spirit of staying positive, no matter what life throws at you.

She’s an old soul in the Instagram generation, a self-declared lone wolf, and living proof that sometimes you don’t need years to change your life. You just need the courage to begin. 🚀

#TheOpenHandShow #DikshpreetKaur #MissPunjab2026 #PageantLife #ChardiKala #WomenWhoInspire #PunjabiWomen #ModelLife #SelfBelief #Chandigarh #GenZPodcast

She shares the name. She brings a completely different kind of star power. ✨

Meet Dr Aishwarya Rai, a Nuclear Medicine resident at PGI Chandigarh who cracked an All India Rank of 97—and believes PGI doesn’t just make doctors; it breaks you, builds you and reveals who you’re meant to be.

We decode nuclear medicine, the reality of becoming a doctor, choosing purpose without sacrificing your life, and why sometimes the career you never planned becomes your “beautiful mistake.” Plus: badminton, Chandigarh’s café scene, Karan Aujla, Android over iPhone, and the surprisingly wholesome dream behind all the ambition.

Smart, candid and refreshingly real—this episode is giving brains, balance and radioactive energy. ☢️🎙️

#DrAishwaryaRai #TheOpenHandShow #NuclearMedicine #PGIChandigarh #DoctorLife #WomenInMedicine #MedicalPodcast #ChandigarhPodcast #PodcastIndia #GenZDoctors #CareerJourneys #RadioactiveEnergy

What happens when a 16-year-old girl in Punjab decides Gidda isn’t enough — she wants to do Bhangra? 💃🔥

Meet Simmi Kandola — award-winning Bhangra artist, choreographer and founder of Kaurgous Dance Studio — who basically looked at the “Bhangra is for boys” rulebook and went: nah. 😎

From teaching herself Bhangra (yes, literally no coach 👀) to starting with her first student, building her own dance studio and training girls across age groups, Simmi’s journey has been powered by equal parts Punjabi culture, stubbornness and serious josh.

And then there’s the moment a judge actually stopped her girls mid-performance and declared that girls should do Gidda, not Bhangra. Simmi’s response? Take them to another competition… and win. 🏆🔥

We also get into preserving Punjabi culture, why learning Bhangra is about more than memorising steps, the highs (and very real lows) of being a dance teacher, and the day she had to improvise choreography with Aparshakti Khurana in about 15 minutes.
Plus: Diljit vs Karan Aujla, Rajma Chawal vs Chole Bhature, her dream Bollywood move — and possibly the first person on the Open Hand Show to ask Aladdin’s genie for… a giant wardrobe. 😂

Punjabi. Punchy. Properly Kaurgous.

🎧 Press play. Balle balle guaranteed.

Dr. Mandeep Kaur doesn't believe in shortcuts. 💥

By day she's a dentist. By passion she's a nutrition coach. And on stage? An international bikini athlete chasing medals one brutally disciplined day at a time. 🏆

In this episode, Mandy gets real about surviving on routine, why protein is everyone's best friend, building muscle before it was "cool" for women to lift, overcoming self-doubt, changing coaches, winning gold, and proving that consistency will always beat motivation.

We also dive into gym culture, women's safety in fitness spaces, balanced nutrition (no crash diets here 🙅‍♀️), chasing impossible goals, and why sometimes all it takes is one person to remind you of your own potential.

If you've ever needed a sign to start showing up for yourself... this is it.

🎧 Hit play for a conversation packed with grit, gains, good food, and a whole lot of main-character energy.

#OpenHandShow #MandeepKaur #FitnessJourney #BikiniAthlete #NutritionCoach #DentistLife #DisciplineEqualsFreedom #WomenWhoLift #Health #Mindset #Podcast

POV: A ₹6,000 beauty order goes wrong... so you decide to build your own beauty empire. 😭✨

This week on The Open Hand Show, Ocean Thakur spills the tea on turning one bad shopping experience into Beauty Nation, building a business while surviving CA studies, becoming an influencer before it was cool, and why she'd pick entrepreneurship over Instagram fame any day.

We also get into:

• 💅 Building a beauty brand from literally DMs and late-night hustle
• 📦 Packing orders yourself and chasing courier guys
• 📱 The reality behind influencer life (spoiler: it's not all PR packages)
• 💬 Handling trolls without losing your sanity
• 🚀 Growing in two of the most crowded industries—and still standing out
• 🌊 Why her biggest dream isn't going viral... it's creating her own beauty products.

Funny, honest, ambitious, and full of founder energy—this one's for anyone who's ever thought, "I can do this better."

Hit play. Your next entrepreneurial obsession just dropped. 🎙️💙