Raakshitaa coaches women on relationships and money, and says her messages land because she has lived them. She has changed five careers, had stretches with no money while questioning her worth and her identity, and now runs a program for women that she describes as airtight. This episode covers the method, the rules and the story behind them. Her starting point is that a partner is an equal variable in a relationship. He has his own psychology, patterns and wounds, and the woman, as she puts it, is the thermostat. Clients apply an exercise at home, report what happened, and the script is changed for the next day. She calls these real human experiments. Her warning about online advice is that twenty reels give twenty different instructions, and applying all of them makes khichdi. She wants a reason behind everything you do, based on science, logic and psychology, not on the fact that she said it. The Divine Feminine Transformation combines group classes, one-on-one sessions, personalised support and toolkits. Students send voice notes and messages between sessions, sometimes at 2am. Three steps are mandatory for everyone who signs up, and cameras stay on. If yours is off, she removes you from the class and sends the recording. She also explains why she posts in polarity, and why women arrive assuming she wants them to leave their marriages when she wants the relationship to work. She spent two years out of work, hard on herself and questioning everything. She started in maternity photography because women in India are told to hide the bump. She bought her first camera with savings from a corporate job, offered free sessions on a pay-only-if-you-like-the-results basis, and every client paid. Her first coaching clients were men, some on six-month programs. She currently has no bandwidth for men. She describes the drawback of being a high performer: you get so hard on yourself that nobody else needs to criticise you. She has had downfalls, failed relationships and stretches with zero money, and says she came out of them further ahead. Her only requirement for a client is courage. She says she takes on people who are ready, and tells the ones who are a maybe that they are not ready yet. Her online presence started on April Fool's Day with a single video. She says she was in hiding for years before that, and that strangers never mattered to her. What held her back was what her own people would say. She talks about her husband, the "diva or puppy" video and the office teasing that followed. He suggested she start a second channel for men. She told him women are the ones suffering. She says hyper-independence is protection, and that a safe partner calls you out and holds the space for you to come out of it. She does not agree that you have to be healed before you can be in a relationship. In her view the right person speeds up healing and the wrong one deepens the wounds. On family, she says the hurt was real and it happened, and she chose to stop carrying it. On spirituality, she describes Vipassana, a morning practice and the Shiv Shakti visualisation she used in her lowest period. She puts that next to her qualifications and says she has no formula, she works from the heart. Raakshitaa: Instagram | Website Naina: Instagram | Website | YouTube | Book a podcast episode
