July 15, 2025 • 28 mins
Welcome to the first episode of the Soarce Podcast (formerly The Modern Millennial), where we're diving deep into growth, reflections, and all the messy bits of life that make us who we are. Today, I'm excited to share some real talk about the ups and downs we've all been through—because let's be honest, life is never just a straight shot; it’s more like a wild rollercoaster ride. I’ll be spilling the tea on the lessons I’ve learned this past year, from the importance of rest being the ultimate flex to how we’re all just trying to figure it out as we go along. Plus, we’ll chat about the beauty of nostalgia and why it’s totally okay to reminisce about the good ol' days while still keeping our eyes on the present. So grab your favorite drink, settle in, and let’s get ready to soar through this journey together.
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Hi, everyone, and welcome tothe very first episode of the Source
Podcast, or the all new SourcePodcast, formerly known as the Modern
Millennial Podcast.
So if you've been here fromthe beginning, if you've been here
from, like, the very first dayin 2022, I believe.
Thank you for being here,because I'm so grateful.
We've recorded 55 episodeswith incredible guests, all from
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my kitchen table, like,virtually on Zoom.
And.
And I was 29 when I startedthat podcast.
I am 33 now.
I like to say I'm older, I'mwiser, but with, like, an asterisk,
like, not that much wiser.
And I'm just like a different person.
And a lot of what I am todayand the changes I've seen in myself
have been through the ModernMillennial Podcast.
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It's been through talking tothose guests and going through the
things that I have in my lifeover the last couple of years and
kind of learning more aboutwho I am.
And through all of thatchange, through all of that learning
and healing and growing, camethe Source.
And so, just for, like, aquick second, for anyone that's new
here, a little background isthe Source is my new podcast.
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It literally stands forSource, like the actual word that
you spell, S, O, U, R, C, E,but with a little play, because my
name is Arpita.
So the AR and the so standsfor for me, represents my mom, whose
name is Sona, and she isdefinitely, like, the creative inspiration
in my life and has been, like, forever.
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And also I love words that,you know, mean different things.
And so Source also stands forhelping women soar.
Like, helping us all soarthrough life and kind of finding
our footing.
And so that's kind of what theSource is.
That's the nature of, like,this rebrand, if you call it.
Hopefully this is the lasttime I'm rebranding because, like,
we've done this three timesnow, and I'm tired.
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Just kidding.
I love it.
I love building things from scratch.
And I've had so much fun kindof like, concepting this.
And when I tell you that thishas been on my vision board for the
last two and a half years,like, exactly what you're seeing,
I'm not kidding.
But there was a lot I neededto kind of get through myself, like,
to kind of the me versus me ofit all, but then also figuring out
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my career and figuring out allthese other things to physically
be sitting here right now andrecording this episode for you.
So that's the background.
Now, what is this podcast thispodcast is going to be very similar
to the structure of tmm.
It's part talk show, but we'renow filming in studio, which is very
exciting.
If you're listening to this,nothing really changes for you.
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But if you're watching thistoday, you'll see me with my phone,
because everything lives on mynotes app.
So just have, like, a fewthings that I want to make sure that
I don't forget.
So we'll kind of be referringback to that.
And it's also part solospiral, which is what today is.
It's me just talking aboutthings that are on my mind.
It's not meant to be.
Like, you're going to get yourlatest, hottest news on this podcast.
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That's never been my shtick.
It's always about curation,and it's always about perspectives
and new ideas and reflectionand kind of going through the things
that I'm going through in my life.
And that's exactly what it is.
You know, When I was 28, 29,things were important to me, and
there's things that areimportant to me now, and.
And you'll see that kind of bereflected through the episodes.
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So that's kind of where we're at.
You'll hear new episodes everyweek, and I encourage you to share
your feedback, to share your thoughts.
If there's someone you want meto bring onto the podcast to bring
onto the couch, let me knowand we'll.
We'll make it happen.
Because I'm doing this for meas much as I'm doing it for all of
you listening.
And so with that, let's getinto today's episode.
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So I know I touched on this alittle bit, but this past year, the
last time I recorded anepisode was, I think, January, February
of 2024.
And since then, every year,something new has happened.
And I think that's holds truefor all of us.
Like, life is never perfect,but I think as you get older, you
realize that more and more,when we're younger, things are like,
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oh, amazing, rosy all the time.
But as you get older, Istarted to realize that, like, okay,
one thing happened and.
And then next year will be better.
And then next year rollsaround and it's like, oh, my God,
now something else.
And that's kind of been thebiggest awakening of my life, is
that, like, it's never goingto stop.
Life is always going to behighs and lows, ups and downs.
It's never linear.
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And that's, like, the fun of it.
But through that, finding yourway out is like, what makes us us
and what makes humans unique.
And for me, like, this pastyear has been this really weird cocktail
of growth, of burnout, ofclarity, of deep healing and a newfound
sense of self.
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So, in true Source fashion,today's episode is a mix of both
some really real reflectionsand some strong but loosely held
opinions.
Because that's something thatI've really grown to understand,
is that things I thought to betrue when I was 22, 23, 27, that
don't really, you know, feelthe same to me now.
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And I've changed my mind on somany things.
And I think that's what makesme this person that, like, adapts
ideas quicker than maybe otherpeople, because it's like, it's not
that serious.
Like, if you thoughtsomething, life takes you a different
direction.
You pivot and you change andyou get there.
But I want to start withsomething I saw on the Internet,
literally this morning, and Itook a screenshot of it.
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It's from one of those, like,meme accounts.
So I don't know who wrotethis, so whoever did, I'm crediting
you, but I'm going to read itout loud.
It says, every woman I know iseither crying, plotting, dissociating,
overthinking, moisturizingaggressively, setting boundaries,
deleting texts, rewriting themin notes, going to therapy, skipping
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therapy, rage cleaning at 2am,romanticizing her life, googling
hormone imbalances, onlineshopping, doom scrolling, dry heaving
from burnout, faking fine,chasing soft mornings, drinking iced
coffee like it's a copingmechanism attacked or doing silent
revenge arcs in her head.
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And sometimes this all happensbefore lunch.
Like, how perfect is that?
Because is that not as you'relistening to this?
Like, is that not.
You're like, rate me.
That's me.
Like, that's my life.
And I think as women, specifically.
And again, a lot of thispodcast is geared towards women who.
Or sort of in my life stage,because that's the only experience
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I know.
But I know a lot of us gothrough this, but specifically to
women, we're dealing with5,001 things at once.
And sometimes we have to kindof like, shape shift in every capacity.
And I think that so much ofthat teaches us all these things
and none of us are experts.
I know I'm not.
I'm not a therapist, I'm not a psychologist.
I'm not like a profound life coach.
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But there's definitely thingsthat I have learned in my life that
I write down.
Like, if I go throughsomething and I learn something from
it good or bad, I journal itand I put it on a notes app on my
phone.
And that's kind of literallywhat you're looking at here, which
is, you know, 10ish things,because there's definitely going
to be more than 10 I'veactually learned this year.
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And this has been an ongoingnotes on my phone.
I wanted it to be a substackarticle, but I was like, you know
what?
I'm going to hold off on thattill we record our very first episode,
because some of this is justbetter when you kind of express it.
So here's your kind of, like,list of things that I've learned.
And each of these has to dowith, like, me experiencing life
the way I have.
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And I know so many of usbecause I've had multiple conversations
with people in my life aboutthese things.
The first is that everyone'sfiguring it out.
No one knows what they're doing.
And there is a term that Ilike to use which I'm Gujarati.
And so it sounds like aGujarati word, but it's not.
It's of kind called fafo, andit stands for eff around and find
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out.
I don't want to curse on the podcast.
My parents are probably goingto listen, but it's literally fafo.
And that's what everyone's doing.
Everyone's just, like, fafoingtheir way through life, whether you're,
like, a senior executive,whether you're CEO, whether you're,
you know, freaking Nobel PeacePrize winner, or whether you're us.
Like, no one knows whatthey're doing, and everyone's faking
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it till they make it.
So if you ever for one secondthink that based on looking at someone's
life or based on watching aninterview they're doing or based
on, you know, something theypost on social media, they have it
together, let me just remindyou they don't.
Because I know I get stuck inthat sort of cycle as well.
And a lot of that comparisonjust, like, pushes us further down.
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And that's something I'mreally trying to work on because
I know that I used to listento Tinks, who has a podcast, and
she would always say,comparison is the thief of joy.
And that is so true.
The more you compare yourselfto others, the more you take the
happiness away from yourself.
So that is definitely lessonnumber one.
The second is rest is like,actually, the real Flex Hustle is
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not the real Flex being busy.
Oh, this pisses me off so much.
Is not the real Flex.
I hate when people are like,I'm too busy to do this.
I'm too busy to do that.
Like, no, that's just annoyingbecause you're actually not prioritizing
what's important to you.
And you're actually pushingyourself towards burnout.
Taking time to rest.
Whether that means, for me,that means sometimes watching eight
hours of TV on my couch,scrolling and not moving to the point
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where my tailbone is like, getup off this couch before we disintegrate.
True story.
Or it's like actually takingtime for yourself and having what
I call, like, mindful rest.
Whether it's going for a walk,actually going to that yoga class
or Pilates class, practicingwhatever spiritual modality is important
to you, whether that'sreligion, whether that's meditation,
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whatever that is, whether it'slistening to a podcast.
Like, rest is investing inyourself so that you kind of get
that recharge you need.
Because hustle of it all,like, has not let us anywhere good.
And we see it day in and day out.
Like, it's leading to morehealth problems.
It's leading to more stress,more anxiety, more people are on
medication, More people arelike, you know, using toxic coping
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mechanisms and behaviors.
And we don't need any of that.
The world is toxic enough andscary enough and life is becoming
shorter and shorter.
We don't need more things to,like, push us over the edge to that
level.
Kind of in the same vein,something I've realized through my
healing process is thatcreativity and healing, they can't
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coexist at the same time, atleast for me.
And what I mean when that,when I say that is like, when you're
going through something andyou're trying to process it and you're
healing from it and you'retrying to refind yourself, you can't
be your most creative self.
You will get ideas and youwill kind of, like, get seedlings
of thoughts that you can writedown or you can push yourself to
do.
But that is not the time tostart business.
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That is not time to start anew job.
That is not a time to, like,do something crazy, because you need
to give yourself that space tokind of find who you are and go through
and process what you're going through.
There's a lot of things that Idid wrong over the last few years
where I wasn't ready, I wasn'tready to do it, but I was like, I'm
just going to do it now,because if not now, then when.
And like, I'm getting olderand this and that.
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And it's like that actuallyTook me a few steps back that didn't
actually propel me forward.
And in the last year and ahalf, I actually gave myself the
space to process, to gothrough what I was going through,
to finally deal with some ofthe things that I had been kind of
putting to the side.
And I think that gave me thisnewfound sense of self.
And I'm nowhere near, like,being perfect at it.
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And it's an ongoing process,and there will be something else,
and you push through from that.
But you have to give yourselfthe space to grow, and you also have
to be your best friend.
And I think that I lovespending time with myself.
Me time is supremely importantto me.
But this is a work in progresslesson for myself.
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I love being with my thoughts.
I love spending time with myself.
But I'm not always my best friend.
I'm not always my biggest cheerleader.
I'm trying to be.
I'm definitely way better thanI was a couple years ago.
My 20s was just this, like,negative sort of, like, track in
my mind playing constantly oflike, you're not good at this.
You're not good enough.
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You're not going to be able todo that.
No, no, no, no, no.
And I'm definitely switchingthat now.
And I see a little bit moreconfidence in myself.
And maybe that just comes withbeing in your 30s.
Maybe that comes with knowingyourself more.
Maybe it comes with kind oflike having things happen to you
and seeing how you react to them.
But I think that if you're ina space where you can kind of change
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that track in your mind to beyour best friend and hype yourself
up, like, nothing's going tobring you down.
And a lot of that, sort oflike being your best friend comes
from trusting yourself andbeing okay with failure and trying.
I actually think some of themost interesting people in the world,
to me, are the ones who havefailed and the ones who've continuously
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try.
Success is one thing.
Look, success is going to comeno matter what you do.
And success looks different to everyone.
And I think, like, when peoplesell celebrate their wins, that's
incredible and amazing.
But it's when people talkabout the things that didn't work
out, the failures, and theykind of pick back up and tried.
To me, that's what makes thehuman experience so beautiful, because
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we can do multiple things.
And like, for me, even justlike, sitting here recording this
podcast, being like the modernmillennial, it wasn't me.
It didn't really work out.
And so I found a way to pivot.
I started It.
I stopped it.
I figured it out.
I went back to work incorporate and then that didn't work
out.
And so I'm pivoting now and Istarted my own consult consultancy.
And now I have clients.
But three years from now, lifecan look totally different.
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And that's okay.
It's about being nimble.
And not every career fieldallows for that.
And I totally recognize that.
But that doesn't only have todo with your career, it can do with
so many.
It kind of spans every part ofyour life.
Even, like, when it comes to,like, self growth.
It's like, maybe you triedmeditation a couple years ago and
you weren't good at it, butmaybe then you just forgot about
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something and you're like,maybe I should start therapy.
Or maybe it's not therapy.
Maybe it's just like having areally great routine in the morning.
So I think it's just findingwhat works for you, but knowing that,
like, trying is a good thingand failing is also a good thing.
And so that's something thatI've had to sort of rewrite for myself
as well.
And within kind of that realm,as you're doing these things, you
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learn who you are.
And another, like, one of thegreatest lessons that I think, like,
I'm like, thank God I gothere, is like, you're not meant to
be the same person you were.
You're not meant to be thesame person you were when you were
10, 20, 30, 40, 50, whateverit is.
So much life happens to us andso much of it happens to us.
So we change, we grow, we evolve.
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And so I actually say this,and I wholeheartedly believe it,
if you're the same person oryou, you kind of, like, pride yourself
in being the same person you were.
I'm talking about mentally andthrough, like, internally 10 years
ago, then I feel like you needto check in with yourself.
You need to spend some timewith yourself.
Like, I'm not talking about physically.
I'm saying, like, your ideasshould shift and evolve and you should
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feel like you're this moreevolved person of who you are.
And for so long, I think I waslike, in fight or flight, and I didn't
really, like, process myemotions and I just kind of was on
autopilot.
And when you're on autopilot,you can't really deal with anything
else.
You're just like, go, go, go.
Anxiety is at its highest andyou're just kind of like, figuring
things out as they come.
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But when you kind of turn thatoff and you feel all the feels.
There's a lot of, like, socialmedia therapy speak about being feelers
and deep feelers and, like,people using therapy words.
And it reminds me of that memeI see all the time, which, like,
is.
Makes me laugh, which is like,when the worst person, you know,
starts using therapy words,like, you know, you know, you've
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just, like, it's over for youand them.
But it's like, it's one thingto talk about being involved.
It's another thing to actuallybe involved and do the work.
And there's a difference there.
And I think everyone needs totake a step back to kind of look
at themselves internally,because the way you treat yourself
and the way you think aboutyourself is also how you treat others.
And it comes across in so manydifferent ways.
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And I've had countlessexperiences with people where I'm
like, are you for real?
Like, are we being seriousright now?
Like, you did think this was aproblem to say that or act like that?
And it's not, like, a badthing, but it's like everyone gets
there of their own time.
You know, some people getthere earlier on, some people get
there later on, but just like,you know, keep that in mind.
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And something I struggle with,again, is, like, eldest daughter
energy.
And I talk about this a lotbecause I'm an eldest daughter of
a, you know, cultural household.
And I've had a differentexperience because my family moved
here, like, way later on from India.
So I don't have, like, thetrue traditional, like, immigrant
growing up in America experience.
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I don't relate to that as much.
But for me, like, a lot of myidentity is shaped by being an eldest
daughter.
And that's not to the fault ofmy parents or my siblings or whatever
it is.
It's just.
It's birth order, and it'salso who I am at my core.
And I've had to kind ofunlearn a lot of those behaviors
because no one asked me to dothe things I was doing, but I did
them anyways.
And so I've had to really,like, tackle things like being misunderstood,
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stopping to people, please,and I'm not there yet at all.
Learning to say no, learningto put myself first, because I will,
like, someone will call meright now and I will drop everything
and, like, message them backright away or be there for them or,
like, you know, do whatever itneeds to do, but.
But I'm too scared to ask for help.
I don't like asking people for help.
It's not that I'm too proud.
It's just that, like, I wasnever that person because I prided
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myself when I was younger andbeing so independent and being, like,
you know, able to tacklethings on my own.
But as I've grown up andthrough learning and spending time
with myself and being intherapy and all of that, you realize
that that's actually not a flex.
Like, you should be able toask for help.
You should be able to, youknow, reach out to others to be vulnerable.
And sometimes it's the peopleclosest to you that it becomes harder
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to do.
And I've worked on that a lot,and I think, like, being on this
side of it, it really helps tounderstand, like, who's in your space
and who's not.
And that kind of brings me tothe fact that, like, friendships
in your 30s look verydifferent, too.
Like, we all have so manydifferent sets of friends.
We all have people who we hangout with, people who we, you know,
share our soul stories with,people who we grew up with.
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And that's okay.
For the longest time, I waslike, I. Oh, my God, Like, I need.
Everyone needs to be my bestfriend because, like, I have to tell
everyone everything.
And I learned from my mistakesfor that.
Because sometimes noteveryone's rooting for you.
Not everyone is in your cornerand in the way you want them to be.
And it's okay to have friendsthat you just hang out with.
It's okay to have friends thatmaybe you just travel with, maybe
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you just talk to once in a while.
And you can have differentbuckets for friendships, but sometimes
you have to understandenergies and intentions.
And people get uncomfortablewhen you change and when you grow,
and they're not used to thatversion of you.
They're not used to the partof you that's like, oh, she's not
the same person she was.
And now we don't know what todo with her.
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We don't know how to actaround her.
And that makes people uncomfortable.
And so that's something that,again, I'm still learning, but I
think one of the greatestawakenings has been, like, you should
be making friends every year,every stage of your life.
Like, I've had so many friendsin my life right now that I didn't
even know two years ago.
And this is something that,you know, I've seen and learned from
my parents.
Like, they, you know, I'veconstantly introduced new people
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into their life, and they are,you know, a good example of, like,
you know, building thatnetwork and having a social kind
of like a social network, likean irl Version, not like a digital
version where you can lean onpeople and rely on them for different
things, but you know whatyou're going to them for.
And then the last few things,because now I feel like I'm giving
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a sermon here, is routine.
Routine is sexy.
I would always run around for routine.
I would be like, you know what?
No, every day should be different.
Every day should be, like, soexciting and like, I want to drink
five cups of coffee and feelso jittery and, like, take on the
world.
But what I've realized is thatthe romantic.
Romanticization, I can't saythat word of life comes from routine.
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Like, routine is what makes it sexy.
Routine is what makes yourlife, you know, moving through each
day.
And it's everything thathappens in those in between moments.
It's not that big event.
It's not that time you dressed up.
It's not that major podcast shoot.
It's what happened before that.
It's the lead up to that.
And, like, I always thinkabout my wedding, right?
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Like, my wedding, I kind ofsometimes honestly forget some of
those big events, but what Iremember is the lead up to them.
All the little moments of myfamily and I were, like, in our home
together, prepping together,having those meals, like, having
everyone over, staying uplate, like dance practices, sangeet
practices, whatever.
That's like, to me, what Iremember when I think about my wedding.
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And that kind of applies to somany aspects of our life, because
it's not about the big, it'sabout the small.
And I think that's the routineof it all, you know?
And I think you realize thiswhen you get older, because when
you're like, 22, you're like,oh, my God.
Like, it's that meme whereit's like, bus club, another club,
another club.
It's like, no, that's.
That's not what life is down now.
You're like, if I can make itout one time a week, that's it.
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That's all I'm doing.
Less is always more.
That's.
That's truly what it is.
And the last thing I'velearned is I used to think that being
nostalgic, being nostalgic forbeing younger, being nostalgic for
the 90s and the 2000s andbeing nostalgic for my college days
and the music and all of thatwas, like, a bad thing.
Because I read something oncethat was like, oh, nostalgia is like.
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That means that you're nothappy with your life right now.
And this is also another sidenote where, like, not everything
you read is true, becausethat's actually such a, like, false
take.
I think nostalgia, somethingI've learned, is like, it's proof
that you've lived life andyou've lived life happily, and you're
kind of reminiscing and you'recraving a time in your life where
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you really felt like yourself.
And you want to bring thattheme across because I think I'm
a deeply nostalgic person.
Like, I'm always listening to2000s music and 2010's music and,
like, you know, thinking aboutmy days on the dance team I was in
college, or, like, you know,thinking about growing up in Bombay
or whatever it is, and it'slike, that's who made me who I am.
Those are the experiences, thecultural experiences, the travel
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experiences, the lifeexperiences that, like, have made
me the person that is sittingin front of you today or speaking
to you.
And for all of us, like, thinkback to a time in your life that
you're like, yeah, that was amoment that will live with me forever.
And I think that's such abeautiful way to be.
Like, we've lived life.
Like, as humans, we have thecapacity to feel those emotions and
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to have those memories.
And so nostalgia will alwaysbe who I am.
And I've learned to kind ofbring that into my life in small
ways these days and kind ofrecreate moments that make me happy.
So that's the end of my, like, sermon.
If you are still here afterall of that, now you're in for the
fun part because this is like,the very, like, hot.
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Take sections of it, and thenwe'll wrap with just, like, some
fun sources of joy.
So if you're still listening,let's, like, deep dive into this.
This is a safe space, and I'mgoing to hold your hand through this.
This is a safe space forpeople who do not watch Love Island.
And I know the episode, theseason, or whatever you want to call
it, just ended, but, like, I will.
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It will.
I will never be a Love island person.
Dating shows, especially,like, those are just not for me.
And I'm talking, you know, asa reality TV enthusiast when it comes
to the Real Housewives kind of world.
But something I've learned is,like, not every TV show is for me.
And that's okay.
The whole world's talkingabout Love island, but it just.
It's.
It's not.
It's not me.
It's not going to be me.
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Skincare will forever be myRoman Empire.
I will talk about it.
I will Overspend on it.
I will gatekeep nothing, but Iwill never, ever blanket statement
like, you need to try thisbecause I have experienced that so
hard and like reeled from liketrying things that people have told
me to and my skin has hated mefor it.
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There's quite literallynothing that brings me more joy than
buying a cup of coffee or avery good cup of coffee that you
make at home.
And we need to do a wholeother episode on my learnings as
a newfound coffee drinker.
I finally crossed over fromlike, put the coffee in my veins.
So I'm jittery to the pointwhere like I'm running around like
a crazy person and I'm finallylike at a one cup of day space in
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my life.
But oh my God, like if I hearsomeone say that matcha is better
than coffee, stop listening tothe podcast.
You know, just turn it offright now because that will also
never be me.
And also, we need to talkabout how Matcha has now seeped its
way into every single fooditem that we eat.
Why is there a matcha flavoredthing for everything?
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I'm so sick of it.
And then Dubai chocolate.
And now the other day I sawsomething that was like a Dubai chocolate
labubu.
Like these words, I can't.
Like 5 minutes ago none of usknew what these words meant.
And everything is becomingsuch a fast paced trend that it makes
me want to throw up.
And like, can we just takethings for what they're supposed
to be?
Like, not everything needs tobe something.
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And my last thing on theMatcha is everyone I know that's
a matcha drinker in my lifeloves coffee and prefers it.
And actually I have proof forthis because all my cousins and like
my sister in law that lovesmatcha, they're like, oh my God,
nothing does it for me like coffee.
And I'm like, see, Matchatastes like grass.
This is matcha slander right here.
Okay?
Also more slander is if I seeanyone in my life wearing the Prada
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kolapuri sandals, I'm comingfor you.
I don't want to do a hot take there.
I don't want to go down.
We all know we all see thesame things.
We all see Scandinavian scarf,we all see the same things.
And I feel the same way.
But this really pissed me off.
If you're going to take thekolapuris and make them like a thousand
dollars, you better givecredit where credit is due, Prada
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and send me a pair.
I'm just kidding.
I'm Never gonna wear them.
And then the last piece ofthis whole puzzle, and probably the
most important lesson I thinkI have learned over the last year
and a half is that everyoneneeds to stop being so obsessed with
protein.
I am so sick of it.
If I see one more real, onemore TikTok, if my mom sends me one
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more piece of content, that'slike, this is where you can get more
protein.
As a vegetarian who doesn'tlike eggs, first of all, it's freaking
hard for me, okay?
So first, let's go through that.
I barely have just started tolike cottage cheese and gotten used
to that texture.
We need to, like, God did notput us on this earth to talk about
protein this much.
I'm telling you, we.
We'll be okay.
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I get it.
It's important.
It's good for our bodies.
We need it.
We need to, like, we need tomove on.
We need to talk about other things.
And isn't that right?
Like, I feel like that is thebiggest lesson I've learned.
So this will forever be asilent protein podcast.
I'm going to eat cottagecheese, I'm going to eat protein,
but I'm not going to talkabout it because it's okay to.
So once again, I'm going tohold your hand through this.
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If you're going to talk aboutprotein on the Internet or in conversations
with friends, let's talk about it.
Let's take a step back.
Let's ask ourselves, do weneed to have this conversation?
Can we talk about something else?
And almost always the answeris yes.
All right, well, that was kindof like my spiel.
We're going to end with whatmy source of joy is today.
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And honestly speaking, mysource of joy is just like, I am
having an out of bodyexistential moment sitting here with
this camera set up in front ofme with, like, this light.
I know if you're listening tothis, you don't know, but I have
this amazing production crewin front of me, and I'm just like,
this is a pinch me moment.
This is my source of joy today.
And if you're listening tothis, like, just a big thank you
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and I'm excited to have morefun with you all.
Hi, everyone, and welcome tothe very first episode of the Source
Podcast, or the all new SourcePodcast, formerly known as the Modern
Millennial Podcast.
So if you've been here fromthe beginning, if you've been here
from, like, the very first dayin 2022, I believe.
Thank you for being here,because I'm so grateful.
We've recorded 55 episodeswith incredible guests, all from
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my kitchen table, like,virtually on Zoom.
And.
And I was 29 when I startedthat podcast.
I am 33 now.
I like to say I'm older, I'mwiser, but with, like, an asterisk,
like, not that much wiser.
And I'm just like a different person.
And a lot of what I am todayand the changes I've seen in myself
have been through the ModernMillennial Podcast.
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It's been through talking tothose guests and going through the
things that I have in my lifeover the last couple of years and
kind of learning more aboutwho I am.
And through all of thatchange, through all of that learning
and healing and growing, camethe Source.
And so, just for, like, aquick second, for anyone that's new
here, a little background isthe Source is my new podcast.
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It literally stands forSource, like the actual word that
you spell, S, O, U, R, C, E,but with a little play, because my
name is Arpita.
So the AR and the so standsfor for me, represents my mom, whose
name is Sona, and she isdefinitely, like, the creative inspiration
in my life and has been, like, forever.
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And also I love words that,you know, mean different things.
And so Source also stands forhelping women soar.
Like, helping us all soarthrough life and kind of finding
our footing.
And so that's kind of what theSource is.
That's the nature of, like,this rebrand, if you call it.
Hopefully this is the lasttime I'm rebranding because, like,
we've done this three timesnow, and I'm tired.
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Just kidding.
I love it.
I love building things from scratch.
And I've had so much fun kindof like, concepting this.
And when I tell you that thishas been on my vision board for the
last two and a half years,like, exactly what you're seeing,
I'm not kidding.
But there was a lot I neededto kind of get through myself, like,
to kind of the me versus me ofit all, but then also figuring out
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my career and figuring out allthese other things to physically
be sitting here right now andrecording this episode for you.
So that's the background.
Now, what is this podcast thispodcast is going to be very similar
to the structure of tmm.
It's part talk show, but we'renow filming in studio, which is very
exciting.
If you're listening to this,nothing really changes for you.
(03:03):
But if you're watching thistoday, you'll see me with my phone,
because everything lives on mynotes app.
So just have, like, a fewthings that I want to make sure that
I don't forget.
So we'll kind of be referringback to that.
And it's also part solospiral, which is what today is.
It's me just talking aboutthings that are on my mind.
It's not meant to be.
Like, you're going to get yourlatest, hottest news on this podcast.
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That's never been my shtick.
It's always about curation,and it's always about perspectives
and new ideas and reflectionand kind of going through the things
that I'm going through in my life.
And that's exactly what it is.
You know, When I was 28, 29,things were important to me, and
there's things that areimportant to me now, and.
And you'll see that kind of bereflected through the episodes.
(03:45):
So that's kind of where we're at.
You'll hear new episodes everyweek, and I encourage you to share
your feedback, to share your thoughts.
If there's someone you want meto bring onto the podcast to bring
onto the couch, let me knowand we'll.
We'll make it happen.
Because I'm doing this for meas much as I'm doing it for all of
you listening.
And so with that, let's getinto today's episode.
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So I know I touched on this alittle bit, but this past year, the
last time I recorded anepisode was, I think, January, February
of 2024.
And since then, every year,something new has happened.
And I think that's holds truefor all of us.
Like, life is never perfect,but I think as you get older, you
realize that more and more,when we're younger, things are like,
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oh, amazing, rosy all the time.
But as you get older, Istarted to realize that, like, okay,
one thing happened and.
And then next year will be better.
And then next year rollsaround and it's like, oh, my God,
now something else.
And that's kind of been thebiggest awakening of my life, is
that, like, it's never goingto stop.
Life is always going to behighs and lows, ups and downs.
It's never linear.
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And that's, like, the fun of it.
But through that, finding yourway out is like, what makes us us
and what makes humans unique.
And for me, like, this pastyear has been this really weird cocktail
of growth, of burnout, ofclarity, of deep healing and a newfound
sense of self.
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So, in true Source fashion,today's episode is a mix of both
some really real reflectionsand some strong but loosely held
opinions.
Because that's something thatI've really grown to understand,
is that things I thought to betrue when I was 22, 23, 27, that
don't really, you know, feelthe same to me now.
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And I've changed my mind on somany things.
And I think that's what makesme this person that, like, adapts
ideas quicker than maybe otherpeople, because it's like, it's not
that serious.
Like, if you thoughtsomething, life takes you a different
direction.
You pivot and you change andyou get there.
But I want to start withsomething I saw on the Internet,
literally this morning, and Itook a screenshot of it.
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It's from one of those, like,meme accounts.
So I don't know who wrotethis, so whoever did, I'm crediting
you, but I'm going to read itout loud.
It says, every woman I know iseither crying, plotting, dissociating,
overthinking, moisturizingaggressively, setting boundaries,
deleting texts, rewriting themin notes, going to therapy, skipping
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therapy, rage cleaning at 2am,romanticizing her life, googling
hormone imbalances, onlineshopping, doom scrolling, dry heaving
from burnout, faking fine,chasing soft mornings, drinking iced
coffee like it's a copingmechanism attacked or doing silent
revenge arcs in her head.
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And sometimes this all happensbefore lunch.
Like, how perfect is that?
Because is that not as you'relistening to this?
Like, is that not.
You're like, rate me.
That's me.
Like, that's my life.
And I think as women, specifically.
And again, a lot of thispodcast is geared towards women who.
Or sort of in my life stage,because that's the only experience
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I know.
But I know a lot of us gothrough this, but specifically to
women, we're dealing with5,001 things at once.
And sometimes we have to kindof like, shape shift in every capacity.
And I think that so much ofthat teaches us all these things
and none of us are experts.
I know I'm not.
I'm not a therapist, I'm not a psychologist.
I'm not like a profound life coach.
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But there's definitely thingsthat I have learned in my life that
I write down.
Like, if I go throughsomething and I learn something from
it good or bad, I journal itand I put it on a notes app on my
phone.
And that's kind of literallywhat you're looking at here, which
is, you know, 10ish things,because there's definitely going
to be more than 10 I'veactually learned this year.
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And this has been an ongoingnotes on my phone.
I wanted it to be a substackarticle, but I was like, you know
what?
I'm going to hold off on thattill we record our very first episode,
because some of this is justbetter when you kind of express it.
So here's your kind of, like,list of things that I've learned.
And each of these has to dowith, like, me experiencing life
the way I have.
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And I know so many of usbecause I've had multiple conversations
with people in my life aboutthese things.
The first is that everyone'sfiguring it out.
No one knows what they're doing.
And there is a term that Ilike to use which I'm Gujarati.
And so it sounds like aGujarati word, but it's not.
It's of kind called fafo, andit stands for eff around and find
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out.
I don't want to curse on the podcast.
My parents are probably goingto listen, but it's literally fafo.
And that's what everyone's doing.
Everyone's just, like, fafoingtheir way through life, whether you're,
like, a senior executive,whether you're CEO, whether you're,
you know, freaking Nobel PeacePrize winner, or whether you're us.
Like, no one knows whatthey're doing, and everyone's faking
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it till they make it.
So if you ever for one secondthink that based on looking at someone's
life or based on watching aninterview they're doing or based
on, you know, something theypost on social media, they have it
together, let me just remindyou they don't.
Because I know I get stuck inthat sort of cycle as well.
And a lot of that comparisonjust, like, pushes us further down.
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And that's something I'mreally trying to work on because
I know that I used to listento Tinks, who has a podcast, and
she would always say,comparison is the thief of joy.
And that is so true.
The more you compare yourselfto others, the more you take the
happiness away from yourself.
So that is definitely lessonnumber one.
The second is rest is like,actually, the real Flex Hustle is
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not the real Flex being busy.
Oh, this pisses me off so much.
Is not the real Flex.
I hate when people are like,I'm too busy to do this.
I'm too busy to do that.
Like, no, that's just annoyingbecause you're actually not prioritizing
what's important to you.
And you're actually pushingyourself towards burnout.
Taking time to rest.
Whether that means, for me,that means sometimes watching eight
hours of TV on my couch,scrolling and not moving to the point
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where my tailbone is like, getup off this couch before we disintegrate.
True story.
Or it's like actually takingtime for yourself and having what
I call, like, mindful rest.
Whether it's going for a walk,actually going to that yoga class
or Pilates class, practicingwhatever spiritual modality is important
to you, whether that'sreligion, whether that's meditation,
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whatever that is, whether it'slistening to a podcast.
Like, rest is investing inyourself so that you kind of get
that recharge you need.
Because hustle of it all,like, has not let us anywhere good.
And we see it day in and day out.
Like, it's leading to morehealth problems.
It's leading to more stress,more anxiety, more people are on
medication, More people arelike, you know, using toxic coping
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mechanisms and behaviors.
And we don't need any of that.
The world is toxic enough andscary enough and life is becoming
shorter and shorter.
We don't need more things to,like, push us over the edge to that
level.
Kind of in the same vein,something I've realized through my
healing process is thatcreativity and healing, they can't
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coexist at the same time, atleast for me.
And what I mean when that,when I say that is like, when you're
going through something andyou're trying to process it and you're
healing from it and you'retrying to refind yourself, you can't
be your most creative self.
You will get ideas and youwill kind of, like, get seedlings
of thoughts that you can writedown or you can push yourself to
do.
But that is not the time tostart business.
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That is not time to start anew job.
That is not a time to, like,do something crazy, because you need
to give yourself that space tokind of find who you are and go through
and process what you're going through.
There's a lot of things that Idid wrong over the last few years
where I wasn't ready, I wasn'tready to do it, but I was like, I'm
just going to do it now,because if not now, then when.
And like, I'm getting olderand this and that.
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And it's like that actuallyTook me a few steps back that didn't
actually propel me forward.
And in the last year and ahalf, I actually gave myself the
space to process, to gothrough what I was going through,
to finally deal with some ofthe things that I had been kind of
putting to the side.
And I think that gave me thisnewfound sense of self.
And I'm nowhere near, like,being perfect at it.
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And it's an ongoing process,and there will be something else,
and you push through from that.
But you have to give yourselfthe space to grow, and you also have
to be your best friend.
And I think that I lovespending time with myself.
Me time is supremely importantto me.
But this is a work in progresslesson for myself.
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I love being with my thoughts.
I love spending time with myself.
But I'm not always my best friend.
I'm not always my biggest cheerleader.
I'm trying to be.
I'm definitely way better thanI was a couple years ago.
My 20s was just this, like,negative sort of, like, track in
my mind playing constantly oflike, you're not good at this.
You're not good enough.
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You're not going to be able todo that.
No, no, no, no, no.
And I'm definitely switchingthat now.
And I see a little bit moreconfidence in myself.
And maybe that just comes withbeing in your 30s.
Maybe that comes with knowingyourself more.
Maybe it comes with kind oflike having things happen to you
and seeing how you react to them.
But I think that if you're ina space where you can kind of change
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that track in your mind to beyour best friend and hype yourself
up, like, nothing's going tobring you down.
And a lot of that, sort oflike being your best friend comes
from trusting yourself andbeing okay with failure and trying.
I actually think some of themost interesting people in the world,
to me, are the ones who havefailed and the ones who've continuously
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try.
Success is one thing.
Look, success is going to comeno matter what you do.
And success looks different to everyone.
And I think, like, when peoplesell celebrate their wins, that's
incredible and amazing.
But it's when people talkabout the things that didn't work
out, the failures, and theykind of pick back up and tried.
To me, that's what makes thehuman experience so beautiful, because
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we can do multiple things.
And like, for me, even justlike, sitting here recording this
podcast, being like the modernmillennial, it wasn't me.
It didn't really work out.
And so I found a way to pivot.
I started It.
I stopped it.
I figured it out.
I went back to work incorporate and then that didn't work
out.
And so I'm pivoting now and Istarted my own consult consultancy.
And now I have clients.
But three years from now, lifecan look totally different.
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And that's okay.
It's about being nimble.
And not every career fieldallows for that.
And I totally recognize that.
But that doesn't only have todo with your career, it can do with
so many.
It kind of spans every part ofyour life.
Even, like, when it comes to,like, self growth.
It's like, maybe you triedmeditation a couple years ago and
you weren't good at it, butmaybe then you just forgot about
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something and you're like,maybe I should start therapy.
Or maybe it's not therapy.
Maybe it's just like having areally great routine in the morning.
So I think it's just findingwhat works for you, but knowing that,
like, trying is a good thingand failing is also a good thing.
And so that's something thatI've had to sort of rewrite for myself
as well.
And within kind of that realm,as you're doing these things, you
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learn who you are.
And another, like, one of thegreatest lessons that I think, like,
I'm like, thank God I gothere, is like, you're not meant to
be the same person you were.
You're not meant to be thesame person you were when you were
10, 20, 30, 40, 50, whateverit is.
So much life happens to us andso much of it happens to us.
So we change, we grow, we evolve.
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And so I actually say this,and I wholeheartedly believe it,
if you're the same person oryou, you kind of, like, pride yourself
in being the same person you were.
I'm talking about mentally andthrough, like, internally 10 years
ago, then I feel like you needto check in with yourself.
You need to spend some timewith yourself.
Like, I'm not talking about physically.
I'm saying, like, your ideasshould shift and evolve and you should
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feel like you're this moreevolved person of who you are.
And for so long, I think I waslike, in fight or flight, and I didn't
really, like, process myemotions and I just kind of was on
autopilot.
And when you're on autopilot,you can't really deal with anything
else.
You're just like, go, go, go.
Anxiety is at its highest andyou're just kind of like, figuring
things out as they come.
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But when you kind of turn thatoff and you feel all the feels.
There's a lot of, like, socialmedia therapy speak about being feelers
and deep feelers and, like,people using therapy words.
And it reminds me of that memeI see all the time, which, like,
is.
Makes me laugh, which is like,when the worst person, you know,
starts using therapy words,like, you know, you know, you've
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just, like, it's over for youand them.
But it's like, it's one thingto talk about being involved.
It's another thing to actuallybe involved and do the work.
And there's a difference there.
And I think everyone needs totake a step back to kind of look
at themselves internally,because the way you treat yourself
and the way you think aboutyourself is also how you treat others.
And it comes across in so manydifferent ways.
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And I've had countlessexperiences with people where I'm
like, are you for real?
Like, are we being seriousright now?
Like, you did think this was aproblem to say that or act like that?
And it's not, like, a badthing, but it's like everyone gets
there of their own time.
You know, some people getthere earlier on, some people get
there later on, but just like,you know, keep that in mind.
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And something I struggle with,again, is, like, eldest daughter
energy.
And I talk about this a lotbecause I'm an eldest daughter of
a, you know, cultural household.
And I've had a differentexperience because my family moved
here, like, way later on from India.
So I don't have, like, thetrue traditional, like, immigrant
growing up in America experience.
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I don't relate to that as much.
But for me, like, a lot of myidentity is shaped by being an eldest
daughter.
And that's not to the fault ofmy parents or my siblings or whatever
it is.
It's just.
It's birth order, and it'salso who I am at my core.
And I've had to kind ofunlearn a lot of those behaviors
because no one asked me to dothe things I was doing, but I did
them anyways.
And so I've had to really,like, tackle things like being misunderstood,
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stopping to people, please,and I'm not there yet at all.
Learning to say no, learningto put myself first, because I will,
like, someone will call meright now and I will drop everything
and, like, message them backright away or be there for them or,
like, you know, do whatever itneeds to do, but.
But I'm too scared to ask for help.
I don't like asking people for help.
It's not that I'm too proud.
It's just that, like, I wasnever that person because I prided
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myself when I was younger andbeing so independent and being, like,
you know, able to tacklethings on my own.
But as I've grown up andthrough learning and spending time
with myself and being intherapy and all of that, you realize
that that's actually not a flex.
Like, you should be able toask for help.
You should be able to, youknow, reach out to others to be vulnerable.
And sometimes it's the peopleclosest to you that it becomes harder
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to do.
And I've worked on that a lot,and I think, like, being on this
side of it, it really helps tounderstand, like, who's in your space
and who's not.
And that kind of brings me tothe fact that, like, friendships
in your 30s look verydifferent, too.
Like, we all have so manydifferent sets of friends.
We all have people who we hangout with, people who we, you know,
share our soul stories with,people who we grew up with.
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And that's okay.
For the longest time, I waslike, I. Oh, my God, Like, I need.
Everyone needs to be my bestfriend because, like, I have to tell
everyone everything.
And I learned from my mistakesfor that.
Because sometimes noteveryone's rooting for you.
Not everyone is in your cornerand in the way you want them to be.
And it's okay to have friendsthat you just hang out with.
It's okay to have friends thatmaybe you just travel with, maybe
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you just talk to once in a while.
And you can have differentbuckets for friendships, but sometimes
you have to understandenergies and intentions.
And people get uncomfortablewhen you change and when you grow,
and they're not used to thatversion of you.
They're not used to the partof you that's like, oh, she's not
the same person she was.
And now we don't know what todo with her.
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We don't know how to actaround her.
And that makes people uncomfortable.
And so that's something that,again, I'm still learning, but I
think one of the greatestawakenings has been, like, you should
be making friends every year,every stage of your life.
Like, I've had so many friendsin my life right now that I didn't
even know two years ago.
And this is something that,you know, I've seen and learned from
my parents.
Like, they, you know, I'veconstantly introduced new people
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into their life, and they are,you know, a good example of, like,
you know, building thatnetwork and having a social kind
of like a social network, likean irl Version, not like a digital
version where you can lean onpeople and rely on them for different
things, but you know whatyou're going to them for.
And then the last few things,because now I feel like I'm giving
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a sermon here, is routine.
Routine is sexy.
I would always run around for routine.
I would be like, you know what?
No, every day should be different.
Every day should be, like, soexciting and like, I want to drink
five cups of coffee and feelso jittery and, like, take on the
world.
But what I've realized is thatthe romantic.
Romanticization, I can't saythat word of life comes from routine.
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Like, routine is what makes it sexy.
Routine is what makes yourlife, you know, moving through each
day.
And it's everything thathappens in those in between moments.
It's not that big event.
It's not that time you dressed up.
It's not that major podcast shoot.
It's what happened before that.
It's the lead up to that.
And, like, I always thinkabout my wedding, right?
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Like, my wedding, I kind ofsometimes honestly forget some of
those big events, but what Iremember is the lead up to them.
All the little moments of myfamily and I were, like, in our home
together, prepping together,having those meals, like, having
everyone over, staying uplate, like dance practices, sangeet
practices, whatever.
That's like, to me, what Iremember when I think about my wedding.
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And that kind of applies to somany aspects of our life, because
it's not about the big, it'sabout the small.
And I think that's the routineof it all, you know?
And I think you realize thiswhen you get older, because when
you're like, 22, you're like,oh, my God.
Like, it's that meme whereit's like, bus club, another club,
another club.
It's like, no, that's.
That's not what life is down now.
You're like, if I can make itout one time a week, that's it.
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That's all I'm doing.
Less is always more.
That's.
That's truly what it is.
And the last thing I'velearned is I used to think that being
nostalgic, being nostalgic forbeing younger, being nostalgic for
the 90s and the 2000s andbeing nostalgic for my college days
and the music and all of thatwas, like, a bad thing.
Because I read something oncethat was like, oh, nostalgia is like.
(22:09):
That means that you're nothappy with your life right now.
And this is also another sidenote where, like, not everything
you read is true, becausethat's actually such a, like, false
take.
I think nostalgia, somethingI've learned, is like, it's proof
that you've lived life andyou've lived life happily, and you're
kind of reminiscing and you'recraving a time in your life where
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you really felt like yourself.
And you want to bring thattheme across because I think I'm
a deeply nostalgic person.
Like, I'm always listening to2000s music and 2010's music and,
like, you know, thinking aboutmy days on the dance team I was in
college, or, like, you know,thinking about growing up in Bombay
or whatever it is, and it'slike, that's who made me who I am.
Those are the experiences, thecultural experiences, the travel
(22:53):
experiences, the lifeexperiences that, like, have made
me the person that is sittingin front of you today or speaking
to you.
And for all of us, like, thinkback to a time in your life that
you're like, yeah, that was amoment that will live with me forever.
And I think that's such abeautiful way to be.
Like, we've lived life.
Like, as humans, we have thecapacity to feel those emotions and
(23:13):
to have those memories.
And so nostalgia will alwaysbe who I am.
And I've learned to kind ofbring that into my life in small
ways these days and kind ofrecreate moments that make me happy.
So that's the end of my, like, sermon.
If you are still here afterall of that, now you're in for the
fun part because this is like,the very, like, hot.
(23:36):
Take sections of it, and thenwe'll wrap with just, like, some
fun sources of joy.
So if you're still listening,let's, like, deep dive into this.
This is a safe space, and I'mgoing to hold your hand through this.
This is a safe space forpeople who do not watch Love Island.
And I know the episode, theseason, or whatever you want to call
it, just ended, but, like, I will.
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It will.
I will never be a Love island person.
Dating shows, especially,like, those are just not for me.
And I'm talking, you know, asa reality TV enthusiast when it comes
to the Real Housewives kind of world.
But something I've learned is,like, not every TV show is for me.
And that's okay.
The whole world's talkingabout Love island, but it just.
It's.
It's not.
It's not me.
It's not going to be me.
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Skincare will forever be myRoman Empire.
I will talk about it.
I will Overspend on it.
I will gatekeep nothing, but Iwill never, ever blanket statement
like, you need to try thisbecause I have experienced that so
hard and like reeled from liketrying things that people have told
me to and my skin has hated mefor it.
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There's quite literallynothing that brings me more joy than
buying a cup of coffee or avery good cup of coffee that you
make at home.
And we need to do a wholeother episode on my learnings as
a newfound coffee drinker.
I finally crossed over fromlike, put the coffee in my veins.
So I'm jittery to the pointwhere like I'm running around like
a crazy person and I'm finallylike at a one cup of day space in
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my life.
But oh my God, like if I hearsomeone say that matcha is better
than coffee, stop listening tothe podcast.
You know, just turn it offright now because that will also
never be me.
And also, we need to talkabout how Matcha has now seeped its
way into every single fooditem that we eat.
Why is there a matcha flavoredthing for everything?
(25:23):
I'm so sick of it.
And then Dubai chocolate.
And now the other day I sawsomething that was like a Dubai chocolate
labubu.
Like these words, I can't.
Like 5 minutes ago none of usknew what these words meant.
And everything is becomingsuch a fast paced trend that it makes
me want to throw up.
And like, can we just takethings for what they're supposed
to be?
Like, not everything needs tobe something.
(25:44):
And my last thing on theMatcha is everyone I know that's
a matcha drinker in my lifeloves coffee and prefers it.
And actually I have proof forthis because all my cousins and like
my sister in law that lovesmatcha, they're like, oh my God,
nothing does it for me like coffee.
And I'm like, see, Matchatastes like grass.
This is matcha slander right here.
Okay?
Also more slander is if I seeanyone in my life wearing the Prada
(26:09):
kolapuri sandals, I'm comingfor you.
I don't want to do a hot take there.
I don't want to go down.
We all know we all see thesame things.
We all see Scandinavian scarf,we all see the same things.
And I feel the same way.
But this really pissed me off.
If you're going to take thekolapuris and make them like a thousand
dollars, you better givecredit where credit is due, Prada
(26:30):
and send me a pair.
I'm just kidding.
I'm Never gonna wear them.
And then the last piece ofthis whole puzzle, and probably the
most important lesson I thinkI have learned over the last year
and a half is that everyoneneeds to stop being so obsessed with
protein.
I am so sick of it.
If I see one more real, onemore TikTok, if my mom sends me one
(26:54):
more piece of content, that'slike, this is where you can get more
protein.
As a vegetarian who doesn'tlike eggs, first of all, it's freaking
hard for me, okay?
So first, let's go through that.
I barely have just started tolike cottage cheese and gotten used
to that texture.
We need to, like, God did notput us on this earth to talk about
protein this much.
I'm telling you, we.
We'll be okay.
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I get it.
It's important.
It's good for our bodies.
We need it.
We need to, like, we need tomove on.
We need to talk about other things.
And isn't that right?
Like, I feel like that is thebiggest lesson I've learned.
So this will forever be asilent protein podcast.
I'm going to eat cottagecheese, I'm going to eat protein,
but I'm not going to talkabout it because it's okay to.
So once again, I'm going tohold your hand through this.
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If you're going to talk aboutprotein on the Internet or in conversations
with friends, let's talk about it.
Let's take a step back.
Let's ask ourselves, do weneed to have this conversation?
Can we talk about something else?
And almost always the answeris yes.
All right, well, that was kindof like my spiel.
We're going to end with whatmy source of joy is today.
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And honestly speaking, mysource of joy is just like, I am
having an out of bodyexistential moment sitting here with
this camera set up in front ofme with, like, this light.
I know if you're listening tothis, you don't know, but I have
this amazing production crewin front of me, and I'm just like,
this is a pinch me moment.
This is my source of joy today.
And if you're listening tothis, like, just a big thank you
(28:17):
and I'm excited to have morefun with you all.
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