Stories with Maya's Amma with Swati Jagdish

How do you teach a child to say NO when even adults struggle with it? In this episode, my daughter and I have a raw, honest conversation about boundaries in real life, not the perfect version, but the messy, emotional, learning-as-we-go version. We talk about: How she struggled to set boundaries with a bully Why saying “No” can feel uncomfortable and scary How introversion and extroversion affect...

Children are naturally curious about the human body. It is how they learn, explore, and make sense of the world, including their own bodies and sometimes even those of their siblings or cousins. Many adults have had such experiences growing up, but never spoke about them. Did you know that even a Hollywood movie showed this scene? I was shocked and pleasantly surprised when I first watched it, too...

In this deeply personal and rare conversation, I sit down with celebrity wife, chef and influencer Sruthi Nakul as she opens up about her water birth experience — a part of motherhood that very few celebrities choose to share publicly. Shruti also speaks about breastfeeding both her children up to the age of four, including her honest journey with tandem feeding, offering inspiration to countless...

I had a beautiful, honest conversation with intimacy coach Pallavi Barnwal. We spoke about NoFap practices, self-pleasuring and what it really means, for both men and women. We explored how men and women experience intimacy differently, how porn has shaped desire and expectations, and where it starts impacting real connection. We also touched upon Tantra, female pleasure, expectation mismatches in...

This one is for the men. I sat down with a Movement coach to explore something most men are never taught to think about—how your relationship with your own body directly shapes your intimacy, your mental health, and the way you show up in the bedroom. We talk about: Why are so many men disconnected from their own bodies How embodiment and movement practices can transform intimacy The nervous syste...

Do you have money trauma? Most of us don’t realize how deeply our relationship with money is tied to shame, limiting beliefs, and old stories we’ve carried for years. In the latest episode of Stories with Maya’s Amma , I sit down with @oneupjourney Katerina Folkman , a money mindset and life coach (and astrologer!) who has been a huge inspiration for me. Together, we unpack : ✨ What money trauma...

This podcast is with Effath Yasmin, who is a lactation consultant and a Biodynamic Cranio Sacral (BCST) therapist who has worked with mothers and babies all her life, and she is also a filmmaker/author/trainer/therapist/flower medicine practitioner. Effath has spent her life working with mothers and babies. In this conversation, she opens up the often-unspoken layers of birth trauma—how vaginal bi...

“Should we have a second child?” A question that so many couples quietly wrestle with, and one that has no single right answer. Super detailed conversation with parenting educator and Coach Gotha Haripriya Having one child itself changes everything.! your identity, your freedom, your body, your career, your relationship, your worldview. So when the thought of a second comes in, it’s natural to fee...

Decoding Emotions 🎙️💛 This time, the guest is someone very special—my 11-year-old daughter. We sat down for an honest, mindful chat about something we all navigate but rarely decode: our emotions. She spoke about how she manages anger, fear, overwhelm, and nervousness—with more clarity than most adults I know. We also explored why it’s so important not to bottle up feelings, and how sharing them...

Porn + masturbation - a lethal combination that gets men to feel guilty about themselves. ! how much of porn is ok, when does it become a problem, where does it all begin, how to know if you are compulsively watching, what is the link between sexual behavior and metal health, have men actually understood what women want, ethical and mainstream porn and ways to work through porn dependency - all th...

Making money on social media, influencing as career, Behind the scenes info & more!

Why does bullying happen, what makes a bully a bully and a victim a victim? can we identify issues early and help our children and teens? I talk with @gotha_hari_priya parenting coach and we discuss bullies and victims. We talk about our own experiences of bullying, how we got our kids Maya and Sarangan to establish boundaries, what we need to know about children's personalities, things parents &a...

Do you have Inner child wounds from: Shaming ? Bullying ? Abuse ? Neglect ? Abandonment ? Guilt ? Trust issues? Other insecurities? These Childhood patterns that are familiar to your body, brain and nervous system is what we often repeat and continue in our adult relationships. That's why it is important to break these patterns. Some of what we repeat can even be generational patterns that if we d...

Actor Nakkhul,talks about family, Fatherhood, spirituality and more. We explore women in his life, body Shaming, inner child healing, parenting, men and expressiveness, spiritual evolution and so many amazing topics. Nakkhul being his usual talkative self, shares with a lot of vulnerability how the birth of his kids, his childhood experiences and his family shapes the person who he is. I'm more th...

5 qualities you can work on to get a smoother parenting experience : 1. control over your emotions: Understand that Child's emotions is triggering your ego. Not the child. If the child is laughing that's not going to make you angry. The child's tantrum , crying, anger, screaming . That's triggering you. So keep the child and it's emotion separate. 2. See child as separate individual: Child is your...

Shariq Hussain married Maria, a single mom and photos and interviews started surfacing on social media glorifying shariq's decision. As i know too many single moms waiting for good things to happen in their lives. I loved that these couples could inspire more such partnerships.. I wanted to have them on my podcast for their perspectives on an unconventional life decision. Hear what they have to sa...

Pallavi Barnwal (Intimacy coach) shares her story about being in a Sex less marriage and what couples need to consider to not end up in this situation. A Beautiful, bold conversation that you'll learn a lot from.. Sexless marriages refer to relationships where intimate physical activity, particularly sexual intercourse, becomes infrequent or nonexistent over a prolonged period. The absence of sex...

Actress Sai Pallavi saying how her first movie's director being confident about her acne and her unique voice gave a lot of validation to her eventually being confident about herself. Do we sometimes need external validation too in being body positive? I explore this topic from my own story of being bullied for my skin colour, curls even spectacles and how i got through it eventually. I tried to d...

PCOS/PCOD is affecting so many women among us and sivaranjani's story can inspire many to try all that they can to learn to manage the symptoms, reverse their condition, get pregnant or to live a more healthier life. Do listen to the whole conversation to know how sivi changed her challenges into learning opportunites and got her desired health outcomes by following holistic methods. To get in tou...

Youngsters who dm us their whole life story and how their parents are physically, verbally and emotionally abusing them. How to navigate the situation when they can't afford therapy or can't move out. Dealing with toxic parents even after becoming an adult. Will we become like our parents and a lot more nuances discussed with my friend & parenting coach Gotha Hari priya. Listen and let us know...

Children touching private parts & Anxious parents! This is most common sex ed question i get. So answer to the question : Yes it is perfectly ok. Because they are private parts to you and the society ! Not to them. For them it is JUST THEIR BODY!! They have curiosity about how ever part of their body works and just like exploring their legs by trying to walk and exploring their hands like tryi...

We are not from the film industry but women speaking up in the film industry can impact women everywhere due to the fact that this industry is indeed a very influential mode of societal change. Reba Daniel, though is into the field of doula work, postpartum, embodiment coaching and allied fields, her extensive experience of working as a journalist makes us go through multiple layers of this issue....

Many assume being in the parenting/ influencing space we have had a smooth sail.. however there are plenty of things we did wrong, or we learned from that we would have wanted to happen differently. sharing yet another vulnerable conversation with you all where me and my bestie Gotha haripriya, parenting coach shares our trial and error moments in parenting and how crazy we went when it came to br...

Love marriages are difficult to get parents approval ? Love or arranged what are some things young people need to prepare themselves with, before getting married ? This bomb conversation with my buddy & parenting coach @gotha_hari_priya explores teenage love, romance, differences between men and women, hormone cycles, red flags, parents disagreement to love marriages, attachment styles, extrov...

I, Swati Jagdish, aka Maya's amma has been in the field of lactation, postpartum, mental &, sexuality health and social work for 10 years since the birth of my daughter Maya. Though i have been creating content on social media for all these years, the idea of a podcast was simmering in my heart for close to 3 years. It's only now I got the fire to bring it into fruition. In this episode i have...