Season 1 Audio Podcasting

Episode 032 FindingTheVoices Being a Mom, Special Mother’s Day Podcast with Priya Ramachandran from United States

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Thanks to Priya Ramachandran for sharing her journey of “Being a Mom” for our special Mother’s Day podcast series.

Priya is mother of 2 beautiful girls, working in United States. I really enjoyed learning many things from her experience. How many of us have to take breaks from career to strike a balance with family ? It is true that women change, tweak the career path to strike a balance between work and family, taking breaks, changing roles and responsibility and even choosing jobs to get flexibility even if that means changing your line of work.

She spoke about support from her husband, networking and setting up extended family with your friends plays a very important role.

I really enjoyed listening to her story and learning a different perspective of life as a Mother. Please listen to this podcast to listen to the story of Priya’s journey of being a Mom.     

Episode 031 FindingTheVoices Being a Mom, Special Mother’s Day Podcast with Priyadarshini Koijam from United States

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Thanks to Priyadarshini Koijam, mother of 2 for sharing her journey and experience of being a MOM.

We spoke about many topics on raising kids and my favorite is talking about pros and cons of having children with less or more age gap.

Listen to the podcast to hear about Priyadarshini’s journey of being a Mom raising her daughter and son, being a GoogleMom 🙂 wearing multiple Hats all the time raising her kids.

Should the age gap between kids be more or less ? Challenges of raising a teenager ? How different is raising a boy and a girl ?How do we go about teaching and balancing Indian values raising a teenage girl in America ? Is shouting to kids productive ? Reasoning and explanation of why children should listen to parents …

Episode 030 FindingTheVoices Being a Mom, Special Mother’s Day Podcast with Surjarani Sairem from Canada

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Presenting Surjarani Sairem in our special series of podcast for Mother’s Day. Surjarani is originally from Imphal, Manipur on our special series of podcast for Mother’s Day 2013 sharing her journey of “Being a Mom”. She did her schooling from Little Flower School, Imphal. She completed her Bachelor’s of Computer Application from Mangalore and did her Masters of Computer Application  from Sikkim Manipal University.

Currently residing in Montreal, Canada, married with a beautiful daughter who is 2 yrs and 5 months old now. She was a working woman before and after her daughter arrival she become a stay home mom and a full-time student. She is a foodie and loves to cook.

How many of us think that you will have your family come over to help out during the child’s delivery to have no one as there was visa rejection ? How much we depend on books and internet to get advice on childcare rather than asking or Moms ? What learning’s a mother has to go through and grow as the child grows, particularly for an immigrant ? How beneficial are birthing classes ? We spoke a lot of interesting topics faced by a young mother.

Listen to her podcast to catch up with her sharing about journey of being a Mom. She shared her experience of having to learn French staying in Canada, and how she is trying to teach her native language Meiteilon to her daughter.

Episode 029 FindingTheVoices Being a Mom, Special Mother’s Day Podcast with Manjoo Sharma Lalwani from Australia

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Thanks to Manjoo Sharma Lalwani for sharing her journey of “Being a Mom” for our special Mother’s Day podcast series.

Manjoo is a mother of 2 boys, working full time. She shares her journey on being a mom coming all the way from Manipur to Australia.

Balancing work & home is all in the mind ? Should we be friends with the kids ? Should we give in to tantrums ? What do you do to deal with tantrums ? Should the reward to kids be materialistic ? How difficult is it to manage with single income nowadays ? What is the role of support for Husband ? Trust & faith & not spying is the key raising teenagers ? Values versus Material gifts ? Keeping up with technologies

Listen to the podcast to hear the interesting and fun way of raising kids and experience of Manjoo’s journey of being a Mom.Personally for me, It was a great learning experience talking with Manjoo. I got so many tips and things to do. Most importantly Mom needs to take care of yourself and have your own time 🙂

Episode 028 FindingTheVoices Being a Mom, Special Mother’s Day Podcast with Tercia Arambam from UAE

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Thanks to Tercia Arambam, a mother of two, professional working in a demanding job, and lives in the UAE, for sharing her journey of “Being a Mom” for our special Mother’s Day podcast series.

How difficult is it for us to express our love to Mothers or people who are close to us? She shares a very touching way to express her love for her mom who passed away.

How many of us feel guilty when we cannot be there all the time for our kids ? How do we balance work and family ? People loves to give advice on childcare, Do we take all of them ? It is interesting to find out about the maternity benefits of 1 hour for 18 months in UAE.

Please listen to this podcast to listen to Tercia Arambam’s struggle of trying to balance between work and family and her journey of “Being a MOM”

Episode 027 FindingTheVoices Being a Mom, Special Mother’s Day Podcast with Jennifer Sharma from England

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Thanks to Jenifer Sharma for sharing her journey of “Being a Mom” for our special Mother’s Day podcast series.

Jenifer is mother of 2 wonderful children 4 years old son and 5 months old daughter, working part time in England. I really enjoyed learning many things from her experience.

We spoke about the excellent Maternity benefits in England, how important your husband’s support is in getting a balance with kids and work and many other topics. I love her 24 hour rule to make up with her husband 🙂 Also she shared about the wonderful relationship between grandchildren and grandparents.

I really enjoyed listening to her story and learning a different perspective of life as a Mother. Please listen to this podcast to listen to the story of Jenifer’s journey of being a Mom.     

Episode 026 FindingTheVoices : Learning about ACUPUNCTURE from Brenda Terry, certified licensed Chinese herbalist and acupuncturist.

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Episode 026 FindingTheVoices : Learning about ACUPUNCTURE from Brenda Terry, certified licensed Chinese herbalist and acupuncturist.

I have always wondered about Acupuncture and wanted to learn more about it.

Brenda Terry, MAcOM; L.Ac. is a North Carolina board certified licensed Chinese herbalist and acupuncturist with over five years experience.  Her lifelong fascination with the human body led her to pursue a Master’s degree in Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture in Austin, Texas at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine.

Thank to Brenda for sharing about Acupuncture . This has been a great learning experience.  We spoke on the following points:

  • Why should I opt for Acupuncture (Facial rejuvenation) over a facial massage at the spa ?
  • Acupuncture or Chiropractor ?
  • Will it be painful ? Is the fear of the Needle stopping you from trying Acupuncture ?
  • Treatment using Herbs !

I definitely want to try facial rejuvenation and the herbal treatment.

She has successfully treated pain, women’s issues, facial rejuvenation, stress, anxiety to name a few.

Brenda Terry offers Treatment at Charlotte, North Carolina, USA for

ACUPUNCTURE, REIKI, MOXIBUSTION,CUPPING, GUASHA, ELECTRICAL STIMULATION, TUINA, CHINESE HERBS.

Episode 025 FindingTheVoices Part 2 Shanti Thokchom originally from Manipur sharing her struggles, lost, healing and life in America as a Single Mother

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This podcast is a continuation of last week’s podcast with Shanti Thokchom, who is working as a Nursing Assistant in an old age Home in Oklahoma in United States. In part 1 she shared about going through very hard times with her journey from Manipur all the way to America, going through her separation and lost of her husband.

In this episode, she shares about her life as a single Mother. She is a strong single mother, the rock for her precious little boy working very hard to secure the best future for her son.

She shares very interesting story of learning how to drive in America, her travelling experience within America as a healing process coping up with her loss.

Many immigrants in America can associated the struggle and fear in learning and driving in the freeways in America. And this lady travels all over without a GPS (still using paper Maps!!), sleeps in the car, travels with basic needs. It is a great learning experience to learn from her that you don’t need a lot of money to travel if you are passionate about travelling and seeing different places. All you need is the Gas money. She shares that she lives within her means and don’t need to dine in any fancy restaurants or stay in expensive Hotels or wear any branded clothes.

It was a great honour to talk with Eche Shanti, such a wonderful woman with so much positive vibes.

Music: Chura liya hai tumne jo dil ko from yaadon ki baraat (This was a very popular songs during the time Eche Shanti was growing up and her favorite song)

Episode 024 FindingTheVoices Part 1 Shanti Thokchom originally from Manipur sharing her struggles, lost, healing and life in America as a Single Mother

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Today I am with Shanti Thokchom, who is working as a Nursing Assistant in an old age Home in Oklahoma in the United States. I really admire her strength and positive attitude towards life even after having gone through very hard times with her journey from Manipur all the way to America, going through different jobs of a private nurse, nanny, working in a daycare, working as a waitress, her separation and lost of her husband. Inspite of all the hardship, she pursued to get license to work as Nursing Assistant. She is a strong single mother, the rock for her precious little boy working very hard to secure the best future for her son.

She has a very interesting diverse background with a Hindu Meitei father and a Christian Kuki mother and she married an American. She shares her story about living with the differences in diversity and having stayed and travelled in different places in the world.

It was a great honour to talk with Eche Shanti, such a wonderful woman with so much positive vibes.

Music: Louri Chatpi by P Chandrakumar (This was a very popular songs during the time Eche Shanti was growing up and her favorite song)