Zanta with Ruthie Zerai

Are you ready to make growth a little lighter? In this episode, Ruthie explores how to infuse joy, ease, and levity into your personal growth journey. Too often, we believe that transformation must be hard—but what if it could also be fun? Discover how to challenge those ingrained beliefs, bring lightheartedness into your self-work, and reconnect with joy and beauty as essential tools for growth....

Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Generational Healing In this episode, I’m joined by somatic coach and trauma educator, Effie Klie, to explore how trauma affects us and how we can heal—both individually and across generations. We talk about Effie’s personal journey, the power of somatic healing, and how breaking inherited patterns helps us thrive. Tune in for an insightful and empowering conversat...

Are you overgiving and pushing yourself too hard? It’s time to honor your limits and break free from toxic productivity. In this episode, Ruthie shares how toxic productivity can drain your energy and why balancing your masculine (doing) and feminine (being) energies is key to sustainability and wellbeing. Discover how to set healthy self boundaries, protect your energy, and make space for rest an...

High-functioning burnout is often hidden in plain sight, and Dr. Sumi Raghavan uncovers its true impact on mental health. In this insightful episode of the Zanta podcast, Dr. Raghavan—an expert cross-cultural psychologist, educator, and burnout specialist—delves deep into the signs, symptoms, and impacts of high-functioning burnout, especially within BIPOC communities. Ruthie speaks to Dr. Raghava...

Ruthie shares how clearing space—mentally and emotionally, —can unlock your next level of growth. Discover why letting go of outdated beliefs, habits, and relationships is key to stepping into your full potential and learn how self-awareness and understanding your origin story are essential for your personal development and authentic leadership. Tune in today for practical insights to help you cre...

Struggling with toxic productivity, people-pleasing, or perfectionism? In this week’s episode, Ruthie sits down with author, coach, and entrepreneur Tamu Thomas to explore how these patterns lead to burnout for women worldwide. We also dive into Tamu's debut book, Women Who Work Too Much —a must-read for ambitious women seeking to create harmony between success and ease. Tune in to discover: W...

Do you want to work with a coach or therapist but you don't know where to start? Well, you're not alone! Choosing the right coach or therapist can be a tricky and overwhelming process for many people. In this episode, Ruthie shares her tips and considerations that will help you make the process of identifying the right coach/therapist for you easier and more straightforward. In this episod...

Over-giving and Unhealthy helping are themes that often come up in Ruthie's client work. Many of us have been conditioned to believe that we need to over-give, over-function and compulsively help others, unfortunately, and often, at our own expense. This episode will support you in starting to question your patterns around unhealthy helping and over-giving. This is an episode for all my fellow...

The power of minimalism, editing your life, supporting your mental health and well-being by organising your home and so much more in this week's episode with one of Ruthie's previous coaching clients Professional Organizer and Entrepreneur Saga Lindberg. In this episode, you will learn from Saga, one of Sweden's top Professional organisers, on how to let go of all the stuff in your hom...

Did you know that Ruthie is an accidental podcaster? Meaning that she never planned to start not only one but two podcasts! Ruthie shares how she started podcasting before she was ready, and how she grew confidence in this process through becoming more competent over time. This episode is for you who is sitting on something that you want to do, launch, or become but you're waiting to "fee...

In this week's episode, Ruthie breaks down what it means when one person belongs to two cultures, also known as being Bicultural. Ruthie shares why she firmly believes that biculturalism is a strength. She also shares her pov on how biculturals can create success and inner satisfaction on their terms by creating their own third way and truly embodying the trailblazer opportunities that they ha...

This week Ruthie sits down with the phenomenal CEO and Founder of the JBT agency, Jakiya Brown Thiaw. In this open and honest conversation, we learn from Jakiya what it took for her to believe in her BIG life and business dreams that led her to move from the US to Senegal, start the business of her dreams and meet her life partner. We talk about the realities of what it takes to create success as...

Can your personality change over time? Can you go from being an extrovert to an introvert? And who gives you permission to do so? In this episode, Ruthie shares her thoughts from her personal growth journey as a Recovering Extrovert. This episode explores how we can be conditioned and socialised into a way of being that keeps us stuck there because we want to secure love and belonging. As we grow...

In this week's episode, Ruthie sits down with Dr Zahra Oumar, Educational and Child Psychologist to talk about all things mental health, conscious parenting and her journey to getting her doctorate in psychology while raising a family of small children. We deep dive into the mindset and support that helped Dr Zahra, a daughter of immigrants, to back herself and persevere with her goal of becom...

In this week's solo episode, Ruthie shares her thoughts on how important it is for you to move beyond your fear of disappointing others as you grow, evolve and pursue your most authentic life. Your fear of disappointing others can hold you back from living your unique life and ultimately lead to resentment. This episode is going to offer you a reframe to help you gently move beyond the fear of...

In this week's episode, Ruthie explores the roots of our people-pleasing patterns. When we're people-pleasing we're not being authentic, and often we learn how to compromise on our authenticity in our childhood to secure attachment. So in some ways, people-pleasing can be understood as a trauma response. This episode will help you understand the origin aspect of your people-pleasing so...

This week's episode explores how to celebrate and live out your uniqueness, full out. Together with my guest Jazreena Harlow, we explore the Power of Trusting Your Intuition and How to Discover your Inner Guidance through the lens of Human Design. Human Design is a system that combines elements of four esoteric ancient wisdoms that have been infused together. This system at its core helps you...

Do you struggle with setting Boundaries? If you do, you're not alone as most of us are beginners when it comes to boundary setting. This episode will help you create a necessary and foundational understanding of what boundaries actually are and why they're important. Ruthie breaks down the three levels of boundaries. You'll also learn how to feel better about creating boundaries and ge...

In this episode, Ruthie breaks down a concept that you hear her share a lot about on her platforms which is Self-leadership. This episode is going to help you understand why self-management is important and why all leadership starts with the management of self. Ruthie also shares some tips on how to get started with actively developing your self-leadership and how that can support you in expanding...

In this episode Ruthie: Reflects on wrapping the 1st season of the Zanta podcast Shares updates on season 2 of the podcast which is coming very soon Drops the details on her upcoming Digital Product: How to Create Your Own High-Quality Audio Podcast for those of you who are interested in creating your own podcast. Shares 3 simple ways for you to support the Zanta podcast in under 5 minutes Subscri...

This week, Ruthie sits down and slows down with Delina Medhin, Beauty creator, podcast host and a very successful self-made entrepreneur with over 10 years of business-building experience. Delina has embraced and navigated a lot of change in her life in pursuit of creating her dream life and business. Her journey has naturally involved embracing a lot of change, in business, life and relationships...

Do you judge yourself for not being where you want to be in life? Do you spend a lot of time being hard on yourself for "failing" or not achieving your goals? In this solo episode, Ruthie coaches you through the importance of extending more kindness and self-compassion to yourself on your growth journey. Self-compassion is potent and can help us move towards what we sustainably want in l...

Is perfectionism holding you back from what you want to do in your life and career? In her coaching practice, Ruthie works with a lot of clients who struggle with unquestioned beliefs around perfectionism. Once the beliefs are questioned and reframed her clients move into taking more aligned action towards their dreams and goals. In this solo episode, Ruthie offers a mindset shift for gently movin...

Do you struggle with judging yourself for not being "there" yet? For not having reached your goals yet? Do you struggle to stay present in the process of growth? This week Ruthie is back with a solo episode to help you guide yourself through the self-development and growth journey with accuracy. To be accurate we need to be fully invested and present to the entire growth process and cele...

This week Ruthie sits down with therapist and clinical supervisor, Nicole Carter. In this episode, Ruthie and Nicole explore how to create a neutral and healthy relationship with our anger by reframing anger as a healthy and insightful emotion that can help us understand ourselves, our shadows and suppressed emotions. This episode will help guide you to use anger in a productive way that improves...