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Sonia Sadiq Gandhi, Founder & Director of Gandhi Creations, who has forged an unparallelled entrepreneurship in the Events & Marketing sector and she has done this over years with poise, grace and often in high heels. With over 600 events under her belt, and the linkages to be proud of. SO, what does life & business in lockdown looks like for Sonia, the gospel she banks on for staying resilient and serving the NSW multicultural community as the Australia Day Ambassador and on the board of Multicultural NSW & other institutions. How Sonia and Gandhi Creations have had to innovate new ways of working, driving the self-reliance motto and all the excitement ahead with India Australia Business Community Awards, Fashions of Multicultural Australia and more. In this disruptive world as we are all finding way to rediscover, it has been delightful to have this yarn with Sonia who left India over 2 decades back, and has created a niche life for her with her young family. She joins me today, after helping her 90 year old neighbor clean the windows in the neighborhood. Sonia is here with me, so please lets welcome Sonia Sadiq Gandhi to the podcast. This episode is recorded in lockdown era in Australia. There is saying that goes success does not happen overnight, its when everyday you get better than before, it all adds up, but with my next guest this surely is at its best today, and I could not think of a more appropriate, more inspirational, more kick ass woman to be by my side as we talk about linkages, celebration of cultural connections, the soft silk routes to the hearts of diplomacy and an electrifying migrant journey that is now the force of diversity & inclusion. New episodes of In the Spirit of Spinning Yarns will be in your feed every fortnightly on a Wednesday. SUBSCRIBE now in your podcast app to never miss one.

The legendary The Queensland Great - Professor Ajay Rane OAM, joins Akashika Mohla for a tete a tete like never before on his success story as the male Urogynecologist, who has served the women fraternity across the globe, with passion & responsibility. The Queensland Great shares the joyous, challenging, and inspirational details of his life beyond work, and also his commitment to women. He shares the exclusive life experiences including the death threats & adversity he has to face thru his profession. Menstruation, Santisation, Child Birth, rape, sexual assualt, Fitsula and the duty to women. We talk about the Charity work his father a nobel surgeon did, the lasting legacy he has in his genes through his Indian father & Portuguese mum and how he respects and thanks his Irish wife every minute for being by his side. And - he is a Yogi! Have a listen.

A riveting new episode of In the Spirit of Spinning Yarns Podcast. Akashika talks to Christine Castley, CEO of Multicultural Australia, Australia's leading migrant support organization. Christine Castley - CEO Multicultural Australia talks about celebrating harmony, the ongoing support in Covid-19 pandemic, the challenges ahead. Christine, talks about what's getting her through the days (and the "Zoom Shooms"), how she supports her team as well as the Queensland community. We live thru her story, from a multicultural upbringing, to the diversity challenges of gender and unconscious bias and beyond that her own success story in leadership. Particularly beyond those barriers for women, how we accelerate the pace of change in workplace equality and why we need to include all women. We further discuss the first nations, modern Australia and celebrating our identity.

Today on Valentines Day, ask yourself - what is your relationship with yourself? Managing mind in this digital world, self compassion, and practical tips for health & wellbeing and also how embracing the migrant diversity to enhance inclusion in Australia with Founder - Reflect & Connect Live - Shabana Kajani . The new essential lifestyle mantra COVID 19 has kindly taught us - mindfulness, with self compassion, care, ease. We also discuss all things race, diversity, embracing the NEW home country to establishing herself. Have a listen. NEW Episodes of this podcast will be on your feed, every time published. SUBSCRIBE now in your podcast app to never miss one. Facebook: @thewiredglobal Instagram: wired_global Twitter: Global_wired

2021 podcast series of In the Spirit of Spinning Yarns, 11th Episode is of our guest, a woman of substance, a noted influencer, a fashion model who was invited at the New York Fashion Week and when she's not in the groove of hair and makeup getting done for photo shoots or ramp, she is advocating for diversity in disability to evolve with the times. With education and experience in advertising, marketing and media, having authored two books this modern Australian woman's movement for equality of disability from newsroom to fashion is extraordinary. Her story, the grit, The X Factor, the grace is all here in Lisa Cox whose story is inspirational. Lisa Cox is the Disability Officer at Media Diversity Australia , she writes regularly for mainstream media and fashion comes to her naturally. Disabled women experience some of the highest rates of domestic violence exclusion from jobs both in public and private sector.. Today beyond accents, we together as Australians, have a yarn to celebrate Lisa's extraordinary story, the imminent change to enable progress of equality in this sector from neighborhoods to Federal Parliament. Straight from Courage Lisa's movement goes beyond Australia; have listen now. NEW Episodes of The Diaspora will be on your feed, every time published. SUBSCRIBE now in your podcast app to never miss one. Facebook: @thewiredglobal Instagram: wired_global Twitter: Global_wired

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Akashika Mohla has a chai & a yarn with Milton Dick MP || Federal Member for Oxley, on all things Milton. A political visionary who knows how to balance the government's mandate alongside the political mandate, committed to the people of Oxley Electorate in Queensland. We discuss all things politics, his COVID19 routine, lifestyle, latest on netflix watch, to important issues for a Australia including the Afghan War Crisis, War veterans, Economy, ALP values & his commitment, and when his next trip to India will be! A seasoned orator and confident debater, Milton is one of the finest parliamentarian is his Federal member role in opposition at Federal Parliament . Milton also shares deets on the other side to his political life. New episodes of In the Spirit of Spinning Yarns will be in your feed every fortnightly on a Wednesday. SUBSCRIBE now in your podcast app to never miss one. Follow us on Instagram/ Facebook : wired_global Follow us on Twitter: global_wired

Akashika Mohla has a yarn with Debbie Kilroy OAM, CEO & Founder of Internationally acclaimed Sisters Inside Inc . Debbie's journey from another side of law & order to a Criminal lawyer & prisoner advocate to now a Barrister in progress, with a huge mission to change the life of women in prison. A fascinating woman on a huge mission. A troubled teenage, to poverty to violence and a trauma of lifetime - Debbie's compelling story is of courage, resilience and returning to reform for her sisters inside. She talks about her life, the #Freeher movement and 'sinking titanic' in the prison system. Debbie's book - Kilroy as here by Kris Olsson is available on Amazon, QBD books store in Australia. New episodes of In the Spirit of Spinning Yarns will be in your feed every fortnightly on a Wednesday. SUBSCRIBE now in your podcast app to never miss one.

Deepti Sachdeva talks with Navdeep Singh - a diverse local Australian voice of people of the vibrant & multicultural electorate Jordan, in Queensland. As Navdeep says, he is a person with second hand English skills but first-hand life experiences in Australia. As a 5% minority in the Australian Politics - Navdeep brings in a unique perspective beyond accents, & ethnicity. With more than 300 ancestries in the harmonious multicultural Australia today, while there is much truth to that statement considering all of Australia's successes made in the context of its diverse population, this confident, veneer also disguises an inconvenient truth. At Wired Global Media & Advisory we follow a bipartisan political approach, and we bring stories to you, without fear or favor. Please do subscribe today.

Does your sense of 'self' come from what you eat? No matter who you are and where you are from - something that connects us all irrespective of our backgrounds, beliefs and norms is 'food'. In this episode we speak to Bhavna - a curator of food experiences and founder of Modern Desi co. What started out as a blog of home cooked recipes, Modern Desi co is on a mission to connect people and their culture's through a shared love and appreciation of flavoursome food, made from a combination of past narratives and stories of new experiences.