Happy & Human

Send us a text This week’s show is all about how to set boundaries for yourself by practicing the art of saying no. Seema and Dinesh dive into the benefits of saying no, as well as provide a helpful framework (the “secret weapon”) to help you learn how to master saying no in a way that drives the outcomes you want with ease and your highest successes, rather than breed friction and stress.  This e...

Send us a text Dr. Sowmya Kallur, Austin-based pediatric intensive care physician, joins Dinesh and Seema this week for an exploration of what it means to experience falling short of expectations placed on us by our culture, society, and colleagues–and most importantly, by ourselves.  Dr. Kallur shares an intimate glimpse into what it’s like to be in charge of life and death situations where child...

Send us a text Dinesh and Seema share one of their favorite parables that they apply to their mindset and how they navigate life with more happiness and ease.  How might you apply this parable’s teachings to your life?  We’d love to know.  Reach out and share with us on Instagram! Links: Dinesh Melwani www.dineshmelwani.com IG @dineshmelwani Seema Desai www.drseemadesai.com , IG @dr.seemadesai   ...

Send us a text We are constantly bombarded with notifications and navigating lighting-paced information exchange, and many of us struggle with feeling overwhelmed or taxed for resources like time, bandwidth and focus. This week, the Happy and Human Duo talk about how to approach this stimulation overload and use constraint to boost your sense productivity and fulfillment.   Links: Dinesh Melwani w...

Send us a text Judgment is a formidable barrier to our ability to perform at our best and be truly happy.  In this episode of Happy and Human, Dinesh and Seema talk about how judgment hinders our ability to lead, make decisions, and communicate effectively.  They also share the root cause of judgment, as well as the many ways judgment can be experienced through a variety of normal emotions.  Learn...

Send us a text Are you a problem-solver or a solution seeker?  How you go about addressing challenges and objections that come your way in  everyday life is either keeping you stuck in frustration  and stress, or is fueling your  highest successes through creative thinking and collaboration.  This week, Seema and Dinesh dive into the mindset shift that allows you to lean into what’s possible for y...

Send us a text This week, we are joined by a special guest, Dinesh’s wife! Dr. Anjna Melwani is a physician who practices pediatric hospital medicine in the D.C. area. She is also a loving mother of two, as well as an advocate for access to quality education through her philanthropic efforts with a school in India.  Together with Dinesh and Seema, she talks about how to build the strength to handl...

Send us a text Join us for a very special episode: our first guest!  This week, Dr. Manish Desai joins Seema and Dinesh’s conversation as they look to help you create happiness and success that’s meaningful to you.  We take a look at the hard truths and eye-opening insights that Dr. Desai discovered on his path to exceptional leadership as a husband, father, and medical director of a pediatric int...

Send us a text This episode touches on 5 things that Seema and Dinesh have noticed highly influential, successful, happy people never do.  Discover what these are as Seema and Dinesh dive into strategies and habits to avoid, so that you can live each day with a greater capacity to be extraordinary. Links: Dinesh Melwani www.dineshmelwani.com IG @dineshmelwani Seema Desai www.drseemadesai.com , IG...

Send us a text The dread of Monday mornings .  “ Thank God it’s Friday. ”  Livin’ for the weekend .  “ Well, we made it to Hump Day, we’re almost ther e.”  These are all things people commonly hear and say routinely as they navigate daily life, which can make things feel like we can not experience what we want when we want it.  This affects our performance, health, relationships, and so much more....

Send us a text “Summa, summa, summa time…”  This episode is part two of two about how to make the most of your vacation, especially when things don’t go as planned (That’s never happened, right?!) and how to come back from vacation so you don’t wind up feeling like you need a vacation from your vacation. Seema and Dinesh share valuable insights based on actual experiences from their lives that are...

Send us a text Summer is almost here, and for many of us, that means vacation time.  This episode is all about Seema and Dinesh’s perspectives on why taking time to rest and recharge is important to your ability to perform at your best at work and at play, and they touch on things they do as a part of their pre-vacation prep to maximize time off. Links: Dinesh Melwani www.dineshmelwani.com IG @din...

Send us a text School is in session! This week, Seema and Dinesh talk about the common mistake that we’ve learned to tell ourselves over the years when it comes to measuring success and, by extension, happiness.  Do grades matter?  Why do they matter?  How are we using grades (or any metric) as a measure of success and happiness?  Whether you’re in school or finished with your education, whether y...

Send us a text No one likes being uncomfortable.  It’s human nature to want to be comfortable, seek comfort and even actively avoid discomfort in life.  So why lean into discomfort?  What does that have to do with success and happiness?  This week, Dinesh leads the conversation as he and Seema explore this topic and take a dive into how to what we can do to help us further ourselves along our path...

Send us a text Success belongs to those who lean into their dreams more than their fears.  Easier said than done, right?  Not if you know why that’s the case and how to do it.  That’s what this episode is all about.  Seema and Dinesh shed light on powerful concepts designed to help you do just that.  Plus, they share simple tools you can start incorporating into your life immediately, so you can c...

Send us a text We’ve all been there–we’ve done something that causes us to question whether our parents will approve–even though we are fully grown and independently-functioning adults.  What’s that all about?  And does it have to always be so?  This week, Seema gets real as she shares a personal experience and her reflections on the learning she gleaned from that.  She and Dinesh share concepts,...

Send us a text Did you know only 8% of all goals set in the New Year are actually achieved?  So why bother? Seema and Dinesh share insights about our innate human tendencies as they relate to goal setting, why it’s important, and why so many people fall short of accomplishing their dreams. Links: Dinesh Melwani www.dineshmelwani.com , IG @dineshmelwani Seema Desai www.drseemadesai.com , IG @dr.see...

Send us a text Anyone can set goals, but most fall short.  The key is in understanding the “how” behind success.  Dinesh and Seema share three tips on how to go about setting and accomplishing goals that they use themselves as they create successes in their personal and professional lives. Walk away with insights that will help you start rethinking how you are going about achieving your goals curr...

Send us a text Our thoughts, habits, and personalities as human beings can either work for us or against us when it comes to our abilities to create desirable outcomes.  In this episode, Seema and Dinesh discuss what it means to be human and how our innate “humanness” can impact how we create success, and ways to reframe default thought patterns so that you can start creating meaningful success to...

Send us a text In this episode, Seema and Dinesh talk about the faulty definition of happiness that we are taught as children, and why that definition can set us up to create the opposite.  They share their personal experiences and insights around how to create happiness, why a reframed definition of happiness is critical to success, and important lifestyle shifts to consider before doing the inne...

Send us a text Welcome to the Happy and Human Podcast, a new podcast from Dinesh Melwani and Seema Desai.  In this short trailer, Dinesh and Seema share what this show is all about and why we can’t wait for you to join us. Links: Dinesh Melwani www.dineshmelwani.com , IG @dineshmelwani Seema Desai www.drseemadesai.com , IG @dr.seemadesai    Happy and Human Podcast on IG @happyandhumanpodcast