Young-ish

By Tanvi Girotra and Rachel Stephenson Sheff

A project that explores the comings of age we don't see coming. By Rachel Stephenson Sheff and Tanvi Girotra.... more

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The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.

Young-ish episodes:

December 08, 2024Are My Parents Going to Die? (Part 1)
In this two-part series, Rachel & Tanvi sit down with Anita Krishnan to talk about the inevitable, awkward, earth shattering concept of our parents’ mortality. The anticipatory anxiety, the just before, the during, the after - and how to make meaning of it all.
Tanvi met Anita at a coaching training when they were both at Harvard, and quickly realised how comfortable Anita was talking about the taboo. Anita suddenly lost her older brother, Rajiv, when she was 20, and then spent her 30s caring for her mum, Meera, before her recent passing just after Anita turned 40.
If you are someone who has lost a parent or someone you love, we hope you find resonance, validation and new meaning from this conversation.

If you are someone who thinks about their parents’ aging and mortality as often as we do - solidarity. The only way we can think to make it slightly less scary is to talk about it.

If you are someone that was alarmed by the title of this episode, and isn’t ready to go there yet, come back when you feel ready. As Anita says, a healthy dose of denial is essential when it comes to dealing with grief. We’re sharing our ‘denial blanket’ with you.
“I imagined a sound system. Pain and grief are set at the level they are at – you can’t turn them down. So what do you do? You have to turn everything else up around them. And as you keep turning up the other knobs – of adventure and love and fulfilment and gratitude – your life becomes louder, more colourful, and more of an orchestrated beauty.” - Anita Krishnan
Find us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fortheyoungish/
Hosted by Rachel Stephenson Sheff & Tanvi Girotra - [email protected]
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45min
November 23, 2024How Do I Disagree With The People I Love?
Rachel & Tanvi sit down with Pranav Sawhney - someone who has been equal parts people pleaser and people agitator, sometimes to the detriment of his relationships and sometimes to their benefit.
As we grow older - and start growing up away from the influence and safety nets of our parents, families and ‘sibling friends’ - two things are inevitable: the ability to choose family and friends based on your newfound agency, and disagreements with your family and friends of origin. These can be about pretty much everything imaginable, from money, to politics, religion, partners, careers, having kids, not having kids … what did we miss?
As the disagreements grow stronger, wider and sometimes louder, we ask the fundamental questions:
What happens when we disagree on values with people that taught us our values?

How might we separate values from ideologies?

Once we have the mutual respect and vocabulary to do so amicably, without the risk of permanent damage, what does resolution or repair look like?

What about those disagreements that never really leave but instead settle in the back of our minds waiting for their next surprise appearance? Is writing them off with a ‘they just don’t know any better’ actually any better?

Find us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fortheyoungish/
Hosted by Rachel Stephenson Sheff & Tanvi Girotra - [email protected]
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46min
November 09, 2024Is Politics For Me?
Rachel & Tanvi sit down with Georgie Carey, Deputy Mayor of Mosman Park in Australia.
We find hope in people like Georgie who spends her time taking care of 10,000 people’s everyday needs like trash, traffic and tolls, and leaning into these small units of change as a way to make big change possible. We discuss:
What it (actually) means to be a Deputy Mayor

Why Politics was the arena Georgie chose to create change

What it’s like to be a young-ish woman in local government

What it was like to be trolled by the far right during her first campaign

How leaning into the smaller units of change in our lives is a powerful way to reclaim agency
It hasn’t always been easy to be a 20-something in such a position of seated power (she first got elected at 21!), but Georgie sees it as a necessary way to make a lasting difference with and for her beloved home.
We absolutely loved this conversation and hope you do, too.
Find us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fortheyoungish/
Hosted by Rachel Stephenson Sheff & Tanvi Girotra - [email protected]
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47min
October 27, 2024Does Choosing to Have Kids Change Who I Am?
Rachel & Tanvi sit down with Aprajita Pandey - Founder and CEO of Indian nonprofit, Haiyya - to dive into her experience of becoming a mother.
When Aprajita’s son was born, Tanvi was struck by her new email signature: "I am now an early toddler's mamma trying to work around my little human's temper, tantrums and demands. Please embrace and bear with my odd timed emails, typos, conservative meeting slots availability and short line responses. I request you to engage with my emails in your own work hours and boundaries."
By leaning fully into her new identity as a mother, and rallying community around her, Aprajita gracefully navigates the ‘have it all-ish’ dream. Together, they talk about:
When was the first time you felt a maternal instinct?

When did you know you were personally ready to become a mother? When did you know your relationship was ready?

What was it like being pregnant and preparing for this next phase of life?

What was it like when you actually had the child and parenting was no longer theoretical but very very real?
Find us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fortheyoungish/
Hosted by Rachel Stephenson Sheff & Tanvi Girotra - [email protected]
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47min
October 11, 2024Will I Ever Get Gen Z?
Millennials, Rachel & Tanvi, sit down with Gen Z rep., Karen Atallah, to chat about the differences, misunderstandings and similarities between these two generations.
They talk about:

Where Millennials are doing well - and where they’re falling short.

Gen Z stereotypes (good and bad) and the context informing them.

Dating as a Gen Z.

How different cultural norms impact inter-generational attitudes (from Lebanon to India to Canada).

Why Gen Z refuses to be put in a box.
Find us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fortheyoungish/
Hosted by Rachel Stephenson Sheff & Tanvi Girotra - [email protected]
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45min
September 29, 2024How Do I Build a Home Away From Home?
We gathered three friends - Chandra Banerjee, Saumya Mehrotra and ⁠⁠Mallika Bhargava - to dive into the unique experience of living away from home, and setting down roots in a new country and context.
We talk about:
What did you move with and what/who did you leave behind?

How did your connection to the new city shape the new you?

How do you navigate starting from scratch in a new place?

How has the emotional experience of immigration impacted your experience?

Would you ever go back? Who would you go back as?
Find us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fortheyoungish/
Hosted by Rachel Stephenson Sheff & Tanvi Girotra - [email protected]
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46min

FAQs about Young-ish:

How many episodes does Young-ish have?

The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.