Some of the most important conversations happen when South Asian women are finally asked the right questions. Here we bring together interviews with trailblazing South Asian women, coaches, therapists, doctors, entrepreneurs, and community leaders, who are doing meaningful work in the midlife space and beyond. Real voices, honest answers, and the kind of insight that only comes from lived experience.
There is a question that Darpan Bhasin asks every woman she works with. Not “How much do you want to lose?” Not “What did you use to weigh?” Not “How quickly do you want to see results?“ The question is this: How do you want to feel in the next decade of your life? It …
There are some stories that stop you, and this is one of them. Tafiq Akhir, known widely as Mr Menopause, remembers being a teenager and watching his mother stand at an open window during a Cleveland snowstorm, drenched in sweat, silently suffering through what he would only understand years later was menopause. No one in …
There are some women whose presence tells a story before they even speak. Women who have not only built something lasting, but have also done so in the face of criticism, cultural expectation, invisibility, and a world that did not always know what to do with their confidence. Women who have carved out space not …
There comes a point in many women’s lives when what once felt manageable no longer does. Not because they are failing. Not because they are too sensitive. Not because they suddenly became difficult. But because midlife has a way of bringing the truth to the surface. For many South Asian women, that truth is layered. …
There’s a particular kind of woman I meet again and again in this community. She’s capable. Responsible. The one people rely on. She’s the glue in her family, the steady one at work, the fixer, the organiser, the emotional container. And then midlife arrives. Not as a breakdown, necessarily. More like a quiet reckoning. A …
Midlife has a way of stripping away what no longer fits. The identities we built for survival. The ways we learned to perform, please, and push through. For many women, it arrives not as a breakdown, but as a quiet, undeniable summons to come home to themselves. In this conversation, I sit down with Sadia …