Ep 34 Making a Fuss About Community, Culture & Women with leader & founder, Mithila Karnik Adarkar

Some people just radiate love and community and positive energy. I am so glad you are choosing this episode today, as this is one of my all-time favourite interviews. Sometimes, my guest and I welled up with tears because of the beauty we felt in what we were speaking about. My guest on this episode really understands community and love and culture and celebration.

She has only been a few years here in Canada, and she is making all kinds of impact in her city of Port Coquitlam. Her name is Mithila Karnik Adarkar. She is a professional, a community-member, a believer in diversity and inclusion, a sharer of culture and builder of understanding. She is a visionary and a solution-seeker and fierce advocate of women.

Mithila is the founder of the Poco Diwali celebrations. She is also a co-founder of the “Make a Fuss Movement”, which empowers women of today, the past and the future. You’ll hear Mithila talk about why she believes in community involvement, what she gains from it and what she wants her daughter to learn from her engagement. We talk about where she came up with the idea for the Diwali celebrations and what these events look like and how she pulls it all off.

Mithila talks about diversity and how representation is key to moving a city forward in an equitable way, and she describes her desire to both embrace this new home of hers and the wonderful traditions of Canada, and at the same time, celebrate and share her heritage and be able to hold both passionately.

Mithila will astound you. Her passion and intelligence is extraordinary and you will gain a lot from this woman, I promise you. Enjoy! Share it and be inspired by this spirit of love and community. I know I was!