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Meet Amani, Nutritional Therapist & Functional Medicine Practitioner specialised in Gut health. 

She helps clients better manage or even reverse their chronic conditions by getting to the root causes of their symptoms. Her passion for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine started in her twenties when she suffered from Candida overgrowth and was able to reverse her condition by rebalancing her gut in a holistic way. 

In this week's episode, we cover some useful tips to hack our productivity, using nutrition. The key questions/points covered include:
What's the impact of screen time on our productivity?Is Caffeine as effective for our productivity? How is caffeine metabolised in our body?The right timing, and order to consume coffeeCaffeine and exerciseWhat's the impact of hydration and types of food on our productivity?Does our sleep impact our productivity? How does hormonal health affect our productivity? Is it the same for men and women?How much can alcohol from prior nights affect our efficiency?Strategic ways of consuming alcohol so it doesn't severely affect our experienceAmani also runs a virtual gut health clinic and has successfully helped more than 250 clients all over the world. She offers a course on digestion hosted on LinkedIn and hosts corporate wellness workshops for companies such as Soho House, TikTok and LinkedIn. 
Her favourite quote is : ''Listen to your body when it whispers so you won't have to hear it scream''
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Meet the next guest on Dotiv The Podcast - Rachel Lai 🙌🏾!

With 12 years experience in marketing communications, Rachel is passionate about mindful leadership, creative thinking and purposeful collaborations. A globetrotter who majored in International Relations & Communications at Monash University Malaysia, she has worked for global businesses in China, United States, Indonesia & Kuala Lumpur.
 
Rachel specialises in branding and communications for lifestyle, hospitality, fashion, wellness and travel brands as well as non-profit organizations through Wavemakers.co, a regional boutique marketing agency that she co-founded alongside her college friend and business partner.
Attesting to the power of humanity, Rachel supports a network of like-minded individuals to help them understand and deliver their ‘why, what and how’ both professionally and personally. After becoming a certified yoga teacher in 2019,  she decided to build the culture of wellbeing at work through Karma Marketing, a not-for-profit community initiative that aims to unite and guide marketers across South East Asia through circular kindness and holistic development.

In our episode with Rachel this week, we cover the following:

- How to make career transitions when you're not sure how to go about it?
Identifying where you areBeing okay with disappointing peopleTaking a break Being comfortable with failure- How to define our personal brand? 
Identifying our valuesPracticing self-inquiry Reconnecting with the selfBlocks/ barriers we may experience- When do we know we've hit our personal brand?
- Not-so -rapid -  Rapid fire questions😂😂  
To connect/ work with  Rachel further, you can click one of these links!
- Consultancy Services
- Community Initiative
- Personal Instagram
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This  week, we have the amazing Vaishali Patel on DTP!

Vaishali Patel is a proven-expert in helping people transform their inner world to discover who they truly are and own their voice. She was invited to do a TEDx talk on using creative expression to become self-aware and heal through the body. 

Vaishali is also a Certified Life Coach, NLP Practitioner, Reiki master and has nearly two decades of leadership experience in corporate marketing and communication.  Vaishali is publishing a book on empowering women to solo travel.

So in this week's episode, we get into our feelings a little , and talk about the struggles we face with expressing our feelings! especially when we're deep in our feels. Key areas covered:


Why expressing feelings is hard for Vaishali, Guni & ThashaUnpacking some traumaWhich settings / circumstances feel easier to express inAddressing the environment factor in expressing feelingsVerbal vs Non-verbal therapy How verbal therapy helps How non-verbal therapy is complementary or more encouraging to people accessing their feelingsTypes of activities that can be used as non-verbal therapyKey tools/ routines/ habits that are helpful to practice expressing
If you'd like to connect with Vaishali, you can follow her on Instagram or LinkedIn
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Have you been to a holistic retreat before?  How do you know if it's for you?

Check out the special episode this month where Guni & Thasha speak about  a retreat Dotiv is hosting in November 2023.

This short episode will give you insight to the intention of this retreat and the overall format of the retreat.

The most common questions asked will be answered - when is it? where is it? what will be achieved as a result of going?  and a few others along the line.

if this interests you, you can register following the link below, and we'll reach out to you to discuss / organize the rest :----- Register here for a  Holistic Retreat in Weligama !



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This week, we have the incredible Seem Anand on DTP!

Seema is an Author, storyteller, Mythologist, focusing on the women’s narrative, with a special expertise on the erotic literatures of ancient India.

So, one of the crisis we face everyday is one that can get little steamy ----should we be maintaining monogamous sexual partnerships? should we exploring into the vast open space of non-monogamous sexual partnerships? 

Seema helps us unpack this, answering some of the following key questions:
What's a monogamous relationship? Should/ can women be in non-monogamous sexual partnerships ? What are the challenges that come up when exploring these curiosities?Does the Kama sutra comment about relationship formats? How can we find pleasure

Connect with Seema - Seema Anand Website or on Seema's Instagram!
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This week we explore the crisis of becoming a parent!

Our first guest is  Keely Seaverson - a surrogacy expert,  founder of Collective Surrogacy, and an attorney specializing in the area of third party family formation. Since 2006, Keely has guided over 1,000 parents and surrogates through their surrogacy journey.  Keely is also a Surrogacy Coach who assists parents by providing them with objective advice and guidance. 

The other guests are a couple who became parents via surrogacy - Khaleel & Kirk.

Key points covered this week include:
The intention and discussions that led to wanting a babyWhy surrogacy instead of adoption/fostering? (Costs, convenience & legal aspects)What are the steps in the surrogacy process?Choosing a surrogate Choosing an egg donorMapping out of personal valuesChallenges faced in the overall processWhat happens post-delivery?Wanna show us some love?

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