The Sovereign Woman with Kalika Sharma Kalika Sharma

Host of The Sovereign Woman Podcast, Kalika Sharma is a women's circle facilitator and transformational coach, guiding women to embody their sovereignty. She has studied and practiced circle facilitation for four years, completing Mastery in facilitation with Sistership Circle, an international body that trains and certifies circle facilitators. In this interview, Kalika shares about the different parts of embodying sovereignty as she underwent the transformational inner work herself and experienced her own initiation into sovereignty. The five parts of the program include self-commitment and self-reliance, original wounding (mother and father wound), the intuitive body, masculine and feminine energies, as well as leadership and visibility for your soul purpose. She envisions that through this inner work all women can undo years and centuries of social conditioning and remember and live by who they really are.⠀

Sudipta Mondal is a fitness and lifestyle coach who has trained (both online and offline) hundreds of people in holistic fitness. She trains and and gives therapy to people for their overall health and well-being which includes physical fitness training, nutrition sessions and lifestyle choices. In this interview, Sudipta shares about her journey as a woman in her visibility, challenging visibility as defined by people around her, questioning societal judgements around it, and breaking through several stereotypes that she was made to comply with. Her belief is that women should express themselves fully, while remaining true to who they really are. Sudipta also shares the factors in her life, including a marriage that came to an end, that made her even more true to herself and her visibility, making her stand for full freedom of expression in comfort with her own body and soul.⠀

Prageeyaa Khanna is a lawyer, mediator and Co-Founder, Rohaa, India, a non-profit in the space of gender empathy, inclusion and sustainable consumption. Some of the primary work includes curating and conducting workshops that act as a tool for social change. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
In this snippet, she encourages menstruators to reclaim the space for ourselves by letting our voices be heard wherever it's necessary - preceded by first deeply connecting with yourself, where there is no space for disgust, shame, and doubt of any kind.⠀

Rose Pinto and Reyna Rupani are Health Experts at SHARAN (Sanctuary of Health & Reconnection to Animals & Nature), India, founded by Dr. Nandita Shah, who only prescribes Food as Medicine. They run the well known Six-weeks to Health Gain and Weight Loss program. In this interview, they share their personal stories with their own body's intuitive knowing to take action in their lives, when they each turned to whole-food plant-based diets. Rose shares about how she intuitively had a sense that dairy was not right her body but meeting Reyna and listening to her clarity on the topic gave her and her family the change it needed. Reyna's life changed with Vedanta teachings, which effected her mental state and eventually her body. Their teachings have helped several women make shifts in their diets while increasing their body awareness and impacting their families in turn.⠀

Niti Jain's passion for learning and teaching led her to the idea of Qween. Co-founding the Qween Network was with the aim to empower and form a community of like-minded women. Today, Qween enables women to restart their careers by connecting them to mentors, peers and flexible opportunities by networking, upskilling and helping them become a happier and financially independent person. In this interview, Niti speaks about her experience with helping women get back to the corporate world after taking a long break. She believes that the more opportunities that women have, the more feminine leaders there will be who will become role models for women of the future. She explains how giving a woman a work from home opportunity is much more than just about getting a job, and more about building her confidence, respect, voice and influence among her family and society.⠀

Saumya Kang is a telecom engineer who works with an Australian government telecom company, she is a mother of two young kids and the facilitator of an online group called Inspired Women Connect that works as a social support group for women from all backgrounds. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
In this podcast, Saumya shares that she believes the masculine and feminine are to be nurtured in the next generation of children, in the way that we decide to shape each gender, irrespective of the gender stereotypes that society has created.