2 episodes
Southern Life, Indian Wife - Sheryl Parbhoo Podcast Podcave
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- Society & Culture
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5.0 • 12 Ratings
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Connect, learn, and laugh with the host of Southern Life Indian Wife, Sheryl Parbhoo.
Sheryl is an author, blogger, female podcaster, mom of five, and a grits-loving Southerner married to a spice-addicted South African Indian man, whom she divorced and remarried.
The show is about honest stories of identity and relationships.
Sheryl minces no words about her interracial marriage and family journey, collision with Indian culture in the Deep South, motherhood, writing books, and general bumbling toward defining her own identity.
Hear Sheryl’s irreverent conversations with diverse guests from different walks of life about what matters to them.
Ask her for life and relationship advice, and she’ll give you her two-cents-worth. But there is no money-back guarantee.
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Diwali primer with author Anju Gattani
This Sunday millions of people around the world will celebrate the Indian holiday of Diwali. The “Festival Of Lights” has fascinated me for the longest time but to be honest I never really understood what it was all about, we always treated it like an “Indian Christmas”. So today I invited author Anju Gattani onto the podcast to walk me through the Diwali celebration; how it compares to western holidays, the preparations that go into it, and what Diwali's origins are.
Along the way we discuss her incredible experiences growing up in a multicultural community in Hong Kong (1:47), how Diwali compares to the American holiday season (4:28), exactly how Diwali is celebrated (5:30), the unique Diwali celebrations she experienced growing up (12:12)--including diverse Diwali Balls she attended (13:25). Anju and I spoke about the Indian culture's love of celebrations (15:48), how she integrates Indian and Western traditions in her household (18:44), why she labors to keep up with both Indian and American holidays (21:09), how exposure to other culture's celebrations is teaching her children respect (22:23), and how she portrayed Diwali in her novel Duty and Desire (29:09).
Read Anju's blog and find more information about her books on her official website. Make sure to follow her on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram!
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It's OK to suck! The therapeutic qualities of memoir writing
Today previous podcast guest Heather Dobson joins me once again; in our last conversation we discussed life, chasing ghosts, and some of her more astonishing experiences with Paranormal Georgia Investigators. This time around, Heather and I examine our writing processes; she poured a lot of herself into her book, Memoirs of a Future Ghost, we talk at length about the therapeutic process of spilling your guts out onto the page for both non-fiction and fiction stories.
Heather tells me how writing her memoir was therapeutic for her (2:05), we discuss how there's always some nugget of truth in every book--even fiction (4:37), why we both disguise some real life characters in our writing (11:49), how we're constantly learning--especially through bad experiences (17:05), why we both thrive on alone time as writers (19:55), how eating chocolate and watching 80s TV--especially TJ Hooker--helps Heather cope with writing about tough subjects (22:25), we discuss some of our favorite memoirs we read and why Heather is obsessed with British royals (23:20), and we offer up some advice for aspiring authors (31:54) including the reality that its perfectly ok to suck (34:33)!
Learn all about Heather Dobson and get your signed copy of Memoirs of a Future Ghost, find her here: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and her website and Paranormal Georgia Investigators.
Subscribe to Southern Life Indian Wife where you listen to podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Tunein. Keep up to date with the podcast and my upcoming book news by following me on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter!
Support the show: https://sherylparbhoo.com/support/
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Customer Reviews
Sparkling personality brings out a variety of conversations
Sheryl is a fun personality who knows how to draw the light side out of her guests. She has an empathy and intelligence which makes for interesting conversations with a variety of guests.
Listen! You deserve a break, we all do!!!
I love listening to Sheryl. I can’t wait for more episodes. She has real, honest conversations with people. Keep the fun hangouts coming.