Her Side of the Stories

Some women look like they have everything together. The career, the marriage, the children, the life that seems strong from the outside. But behind closed doors, they are quietly falling apart. Canay Atalay was successful, respected, married, a mother of two young girls, and leading in a world where people saw her as strong and capable. But at home, life looked completely different. She was living...

Millions know Liv Nervo as one half of the Grammy Award-winning DJ and songwriting duo NERVO. Few know that while she was six months pregnant, she discovered the man she thought she was building a family with already had another family. This conversation isn't about fame. It's about betrayal, identity, resilience, and learning to trust yourself again. Liv Nervo is one half of the Grammy Aw...

Some of the roles we carry through life started so early that we don’t even question them anymore. We just think, this is who I am. I’m the calm one, the strong one, the one who keeps everything together. But sometimes that isn’t really who we are. It is who we learned to become. In this episode, I sit with Lauren Burton, an internationally accredited executive coach, business owner and mother, to...

She could sense what others couldn’t and help thousands of people find answers. But behind the psychic gift was a woman who spent years hiding and struggling to see her own worth. In this episode, Asal sits with Elaine Mary Collins — an intuitive reader who began psychic development at fourteen and received her first tarot deck from her mother at fifteen. Elaine opens up about growing up around ad...

What happens when you feel like you don't belong anywhere? In this episode, Navine Kumari shares what it was like growing up between two worlds, saying no to an arranged marriage, losing her father, being blamed by her community, and spending years searching for where she truly belonged. Born in the UK to Indian parents, Navine grew up balancing tradition, family expectations, identity, and fr...

What happens when parts of your childhood disappear from memory, but continue shaping your life anyway? In this episode, Dr. Katelyn Means shares her deeply personal journey through trauma, shame, survival, healing, and recovery. As a child, Katelyn experienced things no child should have to navigate. What followed were years of trying to make sense of feelings she couldn't fully explain, rela...

When Model & Author Djabu Balde was five years old, she was subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM), which she nearly didn’t survive. She was born in a small village in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, and for most of her life she has carried this in silence, until now. In this episode of Her Side of the Stories, Djabu speaks publicly about her experience for the very first time. About her mot...

In May 2023, Elisabetta walked into a hospital room in Ischia. Her husband, the actor Ray Stevenson, looked up at her, said one word, and was gone. The word was “Finalmente.” Finally. In this episode, she sits with me and tells me about that day. About telling their boys. About the mediums she called from the plane on the way to her son in England and the poem that arrived from ten different peopl...

You can be falling apart and still look fine. Hollywood actress Hollie Stenson tells the truth about high-functioning female alcoholism, the three years that almost killed her, and the recovery she had to fight for on her own terms. In this raw, unfiltered conversation with Asal Zara, Hollie opens up about her father's death, her divorce, sexual assault inside rehab, premature ovarian failure at 3...

At seventeen and six months pregnant, someone from her own school said it out loud:  "You've ruined your life, then, haven't you?" Victoria Price is one of a handful of people on the planet to ever reach Partner at one of the Big Four - and the founder of her own fashion brand, Emello. But behind the title is a woman who has been underestimated her whole life and used every word of it as fuel. In...

Anna Janssen was twelve when something happened that shaped the way she would love, grieve, mother, and trust for the rest of her life. Decades later, she found her own daughter on the other side of the same nightmare — and became the only person who could meet her there. In this episode of Her Side of the Stories, she sits with Asal Zara and tells the truth about silence, the love she lost in a s...

You can be the most visible woman in the room and still be the one carrying something nobody can see. Anouk Matton — known to millions as DJ MATTN — is a Top 50 global DJ, one half of dance music's most recognised couple, and one of the most successful women in her industry on the planet. She has also lived with OCD and severe anxiety for twenty years. In this episode of Her Side of the Stories, s...

The hardest life to walk away from is the one that looks right. Kelly Weekers is a psychologist, bestselling author, and former Miss Netherlands. From the outside, everything in her life made sense — the modelling, the recognition, the achievement. Underneath, there was a disconnect she could no longer ignore. In this episode of Her Side of the Stories, she sits with Asal Zara and tells the truth...

“I always felt different.” In this episode of Her Side of the Stories, Asal Zara sits down with actress and model Jessica-Jane Stafford — for a conversation that goes far beyond what people have ever come to learn about her. Jessica opens up about growing up painfully shy, never quite feeling like she fit in, and constantly adapting herself to the people around her — becoming a different version o...

She built Millions… Then lost it all. Rebuild everything and then, did the same happen again?    In this episode of Her Side of the Stories, Asal Zara sits down with Regan Hillyer for a conversation that goes far beyond manifestation, success, or the life people think they see online.   Regan is known as one of the leading voices in self-mastery and manifestation. But this conversation isn’t about...

“I’m a woman. There’s no easy way to say it. ” It took her 55 years to get those words out of her mouth.   In this episode of Her Side of the Stories, Asal Zara sits down with actress la georgea for a conversation about identity, truth, and what it really means to finally be yourself.   georgea was already a well-known actor. A life built for decades,  a career that was already established and a m...