Latest South asian diaspora Podcast Episodes
Bill Teck On The Trail Of Stevie Van Zandt
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - July 02, 2024 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWelcome to the first special episode where I will be interviewing trailblazers from all backgrounds. Because let's face it, being Tuckered Out is universal. Bill Teck is a writer, producer, director, and the founder of the Generation ñ Media brand. His films include One Day Since Yesterday: Pet...
Bill Teck On The Trail of Stevie Van Zandt
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - July 02, 2024 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsBill Teck is a writer, producer, director, and the founder of the Generation ñ Media brand. His films include One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film (2014). A Cuban-American who grew up in Miami, Bill has been named by Newsweek Magazine as One of 20 Latinos to Watch ...
Anjali Virmani Talks Time Out
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - June 06, 2024 10:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsAnjali Virmani is the Global Head of Creative Solutions at Time Out Media. Shuttling between 10 global offices with a brief of 333 cities, she crafts and implements the Time Out global brand story, strategy, and identity, building bridges between the Time Out brand and its consumers globally. A...
Anjali Virman Talks Time Out
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - June 06, 2024 10:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsAnjali Virmani is the Global Head of Creative Solutions at Time Out Media. Shuttling between 10 global offices with a brief of 333 cities, she crafts and implements the Time Out global brand story, strategy, and identity, building bridges between the Time Out brand and its consumers globally. A...
Utkarsh and Kaly: Blazing The Trail for South Asian Rappers
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - May 21, 2024 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsUtkarsh Ambudkar, aka UTK, is an actor, rapper, and singer and is featured in the CBS hit show Ghosts. He is also known for his roles in Pitch Perfect, The Mindy Project, and Never Have I Ever. Kaly, aka Kunal Patel, is a highly-respected rapper who has collaborated with artists such as Indian...
Maryanne J.George is Celebrating Life, Music, and Motherhood
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - May 14, 2024 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsMaryanne J. George is a Grammy Award-winning artist and a clinical mental health therapist. With five Grammy wins and nine nominations attributed to her collaborations with Maverick City Music, her impact on the music industry is undeniable. Together with Maverick City Music, she has helped rede...
Zarrar Khan is Shining A Fresh Light on Pakistan
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - April 10, 2024 07:19 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsZarrar Khan is an award-winning Pakistani-Canadian filmmaker. Born in Karachi and currently based out of Toronto, Zahra’s works have been screened and awarded in over 100 festivals, including TIFF, Bocarno, and BFI London. In Flames, his genre-bending feature directorial debut, premiered at th...
Anu Seghal and Priya Krishna Discuss Culture and Cooking
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - April 04, 2024 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsAnu Seghal is a children's author and the founder of The Culture Tree, a cultural literacy and language education company that celebrates South Asian culture. Priya Krishna is a food reporter and video host for the New York Times and the best-selling author of multiple cookbooks, including India...
Rochelle Pinto Is Taking Vogue India Into A New Era
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - March 21, 2024 10:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsRochelle Pinto is the head of editorial content for Vogue India. She has had quite a career and is exactly how you think a Vogue head would be-poised, intelligent, well-spoken, beautiful, and as a bonus, she’s totally down to earth. In case you were also wondering if she does gets to work with...
Michael Maliakel and Sonya Balsara: Breaking Barriers on Broadway
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - March 14, 2024 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWe're going to Broadway! Today, I am talking with the two South Asian leads in a very beloved Broadway show: Michael Maliakel and Sonya Balsara, who play Aladdin and Jasmine in Disney's Aladdin on Broadway. Michael made his Broadway debut with Aladdin in September 2021. He has had theater exp...
Kavita Mehra Is Changing Conversations On Gender-Based Violence
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - February 29, 2024 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsKavita Mehta is a a non-profit leader with 20 years of service and a deep commitment to fostering cultural change, organizational transformation, and movement building. Kavita is the Executive Director for Sahki for South Asian Women, a survivor-led gender justice organization whose goal is to...
Akruti Babaria Is Bringing Indian Kulture To Our Kids
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - February 22, 2024 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWhen I met my next guest for the first time after getting to know her on social media, I felt like I’d known her forever. Akruti Babaria is the founder of Kulture Khazana , a business is dedicated to sharing Indian culture with children through educational and play activities. Her story bega...
Nick Rathod Is Bridging Hollywood and DC
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - February 01, 2024 16:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsNick Rathod has been thinking a lot about the power of culture and using it as a platform for change. And he has some experience with that. Over the span of his 20-year career, Nick Rathod has built successful campaigns, businesses, governmental and non-governmental institutions and been a key...
Dr. Aditi Nerurkar: Resetting for 2024.
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - January 25, 2024 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDr. Aditi Nerurkar is a Harvard physician, stress expert, speaker, national television correspondent, and host of the podcast, Time Out with Eve Rodsky. She is also a lecturer at Harvard Medical School in the Division of Global Health and Social Medicine, and serves as the co-director of the Cli...
Megha Tolia Talks Shondaland
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - January 11, 2024 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWe're back! It's the new year and we hope everyone had a safe and peaceful holiday....and we also hope you're ready to get Tuckered Out this year! And what a way to start off 2024... Megha Tolia is the President and COO of Shondaland as well as a beacon of ingenuity and leadership. Her profess...
Curtain Call: Gratitude and A Reflection on the Year that Was
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - December 20, 2023 11:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsToday, in the last episode of 2023, I just want to say THANK YOU to everyone who makes this podcast possible: my hubby and our girls, our amazing production team Ginni Media, and of course, to you. Thank you for your company, support, and for pretending to laugh at my jokes. Before you go, I ne...
Falguni Lakhani Adams Shares Her Vices
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - December 13, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsFalguni Lakhani Adams is an Emmy Award-winning producer and executive with Vice TV and another one of my long-lost soul sisters. She is the epitome of a multi-hyphenate, a mom, a director, a writer, a mindfulness coach, and an entrepreneur, and she has more than 20 years of experience producing ...
Raja Kumari Is Building The Bridge
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - November 30, 2023 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsToday's guest is none other than Raja Kumari, a Grammy-nominated songwriter, and India’s top female rapper. Known as Svetha Rao to loved ones, she brings an otherworldly fusion of Eastern and Western music that's completely reshaping the industry. In our chat, Raja Kumari takes us on a journey...
Nisha Pahuja Spotlights Social Issues Through Her Lens
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - November 23, 2023 11:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsNisha Pahuja is a writer, an artist, and director and now an Emmy-nominated filmmaker. Her passion for social impact is marked by a quiet courage towards exploring complex social issues that often breed division through the lens of her camera. We chat about her latest award-winning documentary "...
Manu Raju Is Discussing Inside Politics
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - November 09, 2023 11:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsManu Raju is a Chief Congressional Correspondent for CNN and an anchor of Inside Politics Sunday. He has covered Capitol Hill for over seven years with Politico before taking on his current role at CNN. With a career spanning from Congressional Quarterly to inside Washington publishers, he's a f...
Swati Swarma Is Making Headlines At Vox Media
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - November 02, 2023 10:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsSwati Sharma is the powerhouse Editor-in-Chief of Vox, a leading platform for explanatory journalism. I recently had the pleasure of sharing a panel with her earlier this year and felt an instant connection. As the Editor-in-Chief of Vox, she’s on a mission to demystify the complexities of the...
Nisha Ganatra Is Directing Cultural Change
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - October 26, 2023 10:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsNisha Ganatra, is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actress of Indian descent. We met this year at Sundance where I was lucky enough to see her screening of Rise, a short film focusing on the struggles of women enterpreneurs today. I first got to know her after watc...
Tuckered Out LIVE! From The SALUTE (South Asian Ladies Unite To Empower) Summit
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - October 19, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWe're coming at you LIVE! from the inaugural summit of SALUTE in my favorite city, NYC baby. The SALUTE (South Asian Ladies Unite To Empower) mission is to build an impactful community of South Asian women focused on innovation, unity, and progress. Members of this community are rising leade...
Rooshy Roy Is Reconnecting With Her Roots
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - October 05, 2023 10:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsRooshy Roy is the founder and CEO of Aavrani, a holistic skincare line that uses clean, effective cosmetics rooted in Indian agent beauty rituals, which she saw her grandmother using as a young girl in India. As an adult searching for an easier way to access non-toxic formulas, Rooshy reconne...
Gotham Chopra Discusses The Religion Of Sports
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - September 28, 2023 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsGotham Chopra is an American sports documentarian, media entrepreneur, producer, podcast host, director, journalist, and author. He is the co-founder of Religion of Sports, Liquid Comics, Chopra Media, and the Chopra Well. Gotham is known for his sports-centric films, having worked with athlete...
Neelu Kaur Is Her Own Cheerleader
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - September 21, 2023 09:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsNeelu Kaur is an author, facilitator, NLP and executive coach, and a wellness and burnout management expert. She combines leadership development, neurolinguistic programming, and burnout management to offer her clients a healing hybrid of research-based professional development skills intricatel...
SJ Sindu On Finding Her Voice Through Fiction
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - September 14, 2023 10:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsMy fourth guest for my South Asian author series is Sj Sindu. As a genderqueer Sri Lankan American novelist and riveting short story writer, SJ Sindu is one of the most exciting young voices out there today. Her first novel, Marriage of a Thousand Lies, won the Publishing Triangle Edmund White ...
Suneel Gupta Talks About Everyday Dharma
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - August 31, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsOnce labeled as the ‘Face of Failure’ by The New York Times, Suneel Gupta is a best-selling author, renowned speaker, Harvard Medical School visiting scholar, and host of a global documentary series (presented by American Express Business Class). Suneel has studied leaders around the world to di...
We're Speaking with Hitha Palepu
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - August 03, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsMy next interview for our South Asian author series is with the indomitable Hitha Palepu. Hitha Palepu is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, CEO of Roshan Pharmaceuticals, and a lover of all things Mr. T and Taco Bell. From a young age, Hitha’s parents encouraged the belief that she didn't have ...
Priti Tanna Marries A Coconut
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - July 26, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsPriti Tanna is the author of I Married A Coconut, a coming-of-age story turned memoir that explores Priti’s journey through navigating the dichotomy of being a first-generation Indian American. It is an incredibly insightful book about growing up South Asian and having to walk the tightrope betw...
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