Brown People Problems

Welcome to another episode of Brown People Problems, where your host, Nikita Sehgal, along with her guests chat about what it means to navigate life while being Brown! 🚨Trigger warning: conversation about research regarding physical abuse, sexual abuse, manipulation and similar sensitive topics. Please engage mindfully. This is part two of last week's episode. Listen to us chat about 5 myths...

Welcome to another episode of Brown People Problems, where your host, Nikita Sehgal, along with her guests chat about what it means to navigate life while being Brown! 🚨Trigger warning: conversation about research regarding physical abuse, sexual abuse, manipulation and similar sensitive topics. Please engage mindfully. In this episode Navreen and I are busting some commonly held myths about powe...

Welcome to another episode of Brown People Problems, where your host, Nikita Sehgal, along with her guests chat about what it means to navigate life while being Brown! In this episode I'm chatting with you about my own conflicted feelings about the monarchy, as well as some explanations from psychology about why we may be obsessed with the royal family. Listen to me talk about these explanatio...

Welcome to another episode of Brown People Problems, where your host, Nikita Sehgal, along with her guests chat about what it means to navigate life while being Brown! In this episode I'm chatting with Canadian Certified Counsellor, Jeevan Atwal, about addictions in the Brown community. Listen to us deep dive in to some myths around addiction, misconceptions, neurobiology of it, and more. I bet th...

Welcome to Brown People Problems, where your host, Nikita Sehgal, along with her guests chat about what it means to navigate life while being Brown! In this episode I'm going into detail about 5 personality characteristics that have been most found to be linked with chronic illnesses, and how these personality features are prevalent in the larger Brown cultures 💭. Join me for a conversation on pe...

Welcome to Brown People Problems, where your host, Nikita Sehgal, along with her guests chat about life experiences and circumstances specific to Brown folks! In this episode I explore Dr. Gabor Matè's research on chronic stress and some personality features that are most present in individuals with chronic illnesses. I find this topic very relevant to the larger Brown culture. Let me know you...

Welcome to Brown People Problems, where your host, Nikita Sehgal, along with her guests chat about what it means to navigate life while being Brown! In this episode I chat with Dr. Pavna K Sodhi, a fellow Indo-Canadian, about intergenerational trauma. Pavna Sodhi (she/her) is a registered psychotherapist, adjunct professor, and author. With several years of psychotherapeutic and research experienc...

Welcome to Brown People Problems, where your host, Nikita Sehgal, along with her guests chat about what it means to navigate life while being Brown! In this episode I chat with popular author Balli Kaur Jaswal about her book Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, her experience of writing about the Punjabi diaspora and much more. Balli is a world famous, widely published, and award wining author of se...

Welcome to Brown People Problems, where your host, Nikita Sehgal, along with her guests chat about what it means to navigate life while being Brown! In this episode I chat with wedding designer Supriya Mehra to chat about the toxicity and stress behind the Desi wedding culture, and more. Supriya Mehra is a CPA - CMA from Toronto, Ontario and started her event design firm  - Design Mantraa in 2009...

Welcome to Brown People Problems, where your host, Nikita Sehgal, along with her guests chat about what it means to navigate life while being Brown!  In this episode I share second half of suggestions on how to raise a feminist, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from her book titled Dear Ijeawele. If you haven't listened to the first episode, please check it out! Join me for a conversation on what t...

Welcome to Brown People Problems, where your host, Nikita Sehgal, along with her guests chat about what it means to navigate life while being Brown! In this episode I chat with Mrinal Gokhale, who is the author of an anthology book on South Asian mental health, Saaya Unveiled. Since its publication, she has also become a speaker and writing workshop facilitator. Listen to this episode to hear us c...

Welcome to Brown People Problems, where your host, Nikita Sehgal, along with her guests chat about what it means to navigate life while being Brown! In this episode I chat with Mitra Bissessar. Mitra (he/him) is a registered social worker, currently working as counsellor specializing in mental health and youth/parent relations. He works full-time at a mental health agency in Ottawa supporting pare...

Welcome to Brown People Problems, where your host, Nikita Sehgal, along with her guests chat about what it means to navigate life while being Brown! In this episode I chat with Sana Motlekar, a registered dietitian in Canada who's practice focuses on PCOS and Weight Loss. Being a Person of Color herself, she wanted to fill this gap and create a safe space for people of diverse cultural backgrounds...

Welcome to Brown People Problems, where your host, Nikita Sehgal, along with her guests chat about what it means to navigate life while being Brown! In this episode I chat with Dr. Niyati Malkani, who is a daughter of South Asian immigrant parents, an old friend, and a senior OB/GYN resident based in Saskatchewan, Canada. She holds special interest in global health work and equitable access to hea...

Welcome to Brown People Problems, where your host, Nikita Sehgal, along with her guests chat about what it means to navigate life while being Brown!  In this episode I share 7 of the 15 suggestions on how to raise a feminist, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from her book titled Dear Ijeawele. Join me for a conversation on what these suggestions look like in the Brown communities and in the contex...

Welcome to Brown People Problems, where your host, Nikita Sehgal, along with her guests chat about what it means to navigate life while being Brown!  In this episode I chat with Shweta Dixit, who is a South Asian immigrant to Canada and a very successful content creator. Listen to the episode to hear us chat about her journey from being a space engineer to now a full time dance content creato...

Welcome to Brown People Problems, where your host, Nikita Sehgal, along with her guests chat about what it means to navigate life while being South Asian! In this episode I chat with Aashima Verma, a South Asian immigrant to Canada, and successful entrepreneur, about her experiences navigating immigration stress as an adult. While working in the beauty industry, where all of the employees and clie...

Welcome to Brown People Problems, where your host, Nikita Sehgal, along with her guests chat about what it means to navigate life while being South Asian! In this episode I chat with Jessie Dhaliwal. Jessie is a queer South Asian woman from Greater Vancouver. She is an intersectional and trauma-focused clinical counsellor working with our South Asian community. Jessie has founded the collective So...

Welcome to Brown People Problems, where your host, Nikita Sehgal, along with her guests chat about what it means to navigate life while being South Asian! In this episode I chat with Angie Agrawal Holstein, Founder and Psychotherapist at Shanti Psychotherapy, about why we need to chat about the unique South Asian experiences, and why affinity matters. You can find out more about her here: https://...