Defining Love By Our Parents Stories

Defining Love By Our Parents Stories Jasbina Ahluwalia discusses with  Abby Rodman, author of  Should You Marry Him? A No-Nonsense, Therapist-Tested Guide to Not Screwing Up the Biggest Decision of Your Life how people define marriage based on what their parents show them: This is one of the last quotes that I’m going to share from your book. You have a chapter entitled, Theirs and Ours: Making Your Marriage Your Own. South Asian

Be Your Own Person and Spice it Up!

Be Your Own Person and Spice it Up! Jasbina Ahluwalia discusses with  Abby Rodman, author of  Should You Marry Him? A No-Nonsense, Therapist-Tested Guide to Not Screwing Up the Biggest Decision of Your Life the importance of living a life with passion: I hear from men very often, “I want someone who is passionate about something in their lives. I don’t want to be their whole world.” You can flip into living vicariously

Why Being Self-Fulfilled Can’t Wait

Why Being Self-Fulfilled Can't Wait Jasbina Ahluwalia discusses with Abby Rodman, author of  Should You Marry Him? A No-Nonsense, Therapist-Tested Guide to Not Screwing Up the Biggest Decision of Your Life the importance of self fulfillment: That’s such an opportunity that we have in terms of demonstrating our love to our partners to be the people who really are healing that. That’s amazing. Like you said, there is a flip to that. That’s

Childhood Wounds in Love Relationships

Childhood Wounds in Love Relationships Jasbina Ahluwalia discusses with Abby Rodman, author of Should You Marry Him? A No-Nonsense, Therapist-Tested Guide to Not Screwing Up the Biggest Decision of Your Life the role of our childhood in romantic relationships: Your book states, “Many of us “hire on” a potential spouses to activate or reactivate our childhood wounds. Everything we know about relationships, we learned in childhood and that knowledge becomes like a pair

Changing Your Life or Lifestyle for Love

Changing Your Life or Lifestyle for Love Jasbina Ahluwalia discusses with Abby Rodman, author of Should You Marry Him? A No-Nonsense, Therapist-Tested Guide to Not Screwing Up the Biggest Decision of Your Life someone changing their lifestyle vs. changing their life for love: You addressed it by discussing ten make or break pre-marriage issues that popped up from your experience. You mentioned that they come up in every troubled marriage or relationship that

Intuition & Marrying the Right Person

Intuition & Marrying the Right Person Jasbina Ahluwalia discusses with Abby Rodman, author of Should You Marry Him? A No-Nonsense, Therapist-Tested Guide to Not Screwing Up the Biggest Decision of Your Life the following: It was a great book. I’m very excited about sharing it with our listeners. What led you to write Should You Marry Him in the first place? _____   Abby Rodman That’s a good question. I think it started

Tag Excitement to Non-Profit

Tag Excitement to Non-Profit Jasbina Ahluwalia Thank you, Deepa. Let’s go to our next caller. Welcome, caller. Go ahead and ask Deepa your question. _____   Caller Three asks Deepa Iyer, former Executive Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together, SAALT: Hi. Thanks, Jasbina. Hi, Deepa. My name is Ritu. I’m President of NetIP North America. A lot of what you were talking about today has been really insightful and great information. I

Meet The Patels – Interview With the Movie Cast – Ravi Patel, Vasant Patel & Champa Patel

Meet The Patels - Interview With the Movie Cast - Ravi Patel, Vasant Patel & Champa Patel “Insights from the Cast of Meet The Patels” Jasbina Ahluwalia interviews Ravi Patel, Vasant Patel & Champa Patel   Ravi V. Patel - Director/Writer/Editor/Actor​ Ravi’s directorial debut is the real-life romantic comedy Meet the Patels. Executive Produced by Academy Award Winner Geralyn Dreyfous. The film features Ravi’s family and his comedic take on a sequence of

Non-Profits Require Flexibility

Non-Profits Require Flexibility Jasbina Ahluwalia Let’s take our next question. Welcome, caller. Please feel free to ask your question. _____    Caller Two asks Deepa Iyer, former Executive Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together, SAALT: Hi, Deepa. This is Aditi. Thank you so much for joining us today. You have an amazing wealth of knowledge that really helped me understand non-profits better. I have a two-part question. One of them is mine

Launch a Non-Profit: Tips

Launch a Non-Profit: Tips Caller One asks Deepa Iyer, former Executive Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together, SAALT: Jasbina, thank you. Deepa, I really appreciate you taking the time to speak with us. I do work for two non-profits during my free time. You mentioned the idea of having to know it all when you are launching a non-profit. Would you please provide us with some advice regarding how to achieve that