Unsilent Women

In today's episode, we're honored to have Dr. Sheila Wijaysinghe, a renowned advocate for equitable healthcare, joining us in a vital discussion that resonates with many.In this Episode:Unpacking the Legacy of COVID-19: We revisit the COVID-19 pandemic, not as a distant memory but its aftermath and significant impacts on women. What are the long-term effects of this global crisis on women's health and well-being?Demystifying Burnout in Women: Often misunderstood or unnoticed, burnout can have...

Welcome back to the second season of Unsilent Women! This season, host Poorva returns with a fabulous new co-host Nashina Merani Miranda, to have an impactful conversation on a topic that resonates deeply with women of color around the globe. Our inaugural episode dives into the complex issue of labels and reclaiming identity.In this episode, we explore how labels, often thrust upon us by society or self-imposed, can influence the perception of women, especially women of color. These lab...

We are in the era of swiping left to find the right person. An endless digital scrapbook of options for every taste, interest, physical, social or lifestyle preference. But what does this era of dating through a portal mean for finding love. Poorva talks to Nikoletta Erdelyi, a self-proclaimed shit disturber in the digital dating space, who specializes in trolling f*** boys. Nikoletta uses her boundless reserves of humor and wit to explore digital dating in a big city as a millennial woman. S...

Where is the line where you end and another person begins? Why do we struggle to identify our limits? And how do we establish effective and healthy boundaries with the people we love, in personal and professional relationships, and even with ourselves?In this episode Poorva and Dr. Tracy Dalgleish dive into understanding boundaries and why women especially, struggle with them. What's the social conditioning that gets in the way of us protecting our time and energy? How can we focus on what br...

Did the Sweet Valley series inform a young girl's ideas of dating and romance? Does Harry Potter have anything to do with how we think about elite education? Is Bella Swan, a love-obsessed teen really an accurate portrayal of a teenage girl?The stories we grow up with, stay with us our entire lives. They are our first window into the world and so much of what we learn and how we grow up is shaped by children's stories. Maria Vicente is a Senior Literary Agent at P.S. Literary rep...

Representation and diversity have become major talking points over the last year. Phrases like “if you can see it you can be it,” are popular platitudes of support, offered at diversity seminars and plastered in Millennial pink quote backdrops on Instagram. But all of this talk around diversity has made it this silent thief in the night. Like a diverse world is aspirational. When the reality is that diversity is already here. And if we aren’t seeing it in the spaces that we o...

The tech world is full of upstarts and startups, and might look something like — a young, college dropout, disproportionately white and male. Those are the stories that make the news, the tech darlings that get funded. But what about the side of the tech world that isn't seen? The 38-year-old Black mother with two STEM degrees who starts a business? The Latinx girl with an engineering degree under her belt who starts a tech company? Or a woman with a background in Marketing and a passio...

The writer's journey is long, serpentine and lonely. No one really becomes a writer. You simply write. If you love it and you write long enough there might be a future in the books. But what happens when rejection is name of the game, book-deals aren't written in stone and writers see dreams evaporate in a puff of smoke?Marissa Stapley is an internationally bestselling author of four novels. Her latest novel Lucky, debuted this year and was optioned for television by Disney Studio...

In our pandemic world where work is digital, people are stretched, and job security feels like a thing of the past, entrepreneurship is exploding. In a world of tech-lords and big business, we are seeing the rise of a new kind of “nation-state,” — billionaires. How do entrepreneurs, solopreneurs and small businesses navigate a world where some people have more capital and clout than some countries? How do entrepreneurs remain dauntless and pursue dreams of both income and impact? A...

Welcome to the jungles of Costa Rica! This is a first solo episode where host Poorva talks about moving to Costa Rica and early observations on what makes this Central American country such a happy and peaceful place. She explores topics like the locals' relationship to nature, the lack of a big consumer culture and the incredible community ethos that allows expats and locals to live in symbiosis.