A Moment of Silence for Choosing Him Over Career

This week’s episode begins with a moment of celebration because Sakshi had a birthday! Wooo! The girls went to a cricket match with the noble intention of rage-baiting men but things took an unexpected turn and Naina ended up becoming the national crush (which to be fair enraged a lot of men, so mission accomplished).

From there we spiralled into a very real conversation about men stealing women’s work, taking credit for their ideas, and the mysterious ability some guys have to dim a girl’s shine the moment she starts doing a little toooo well for their liking.

We asked the important question: how do you go to bed at night after stealing someone else’s work?? Our heartfelt condolences to the girl who had her cancer research stolen and an even bigger sorry to the girl who had her instagram bio stolen.

This led us to the ultimate dilemma: your man vs your career. We debated ambition, insecurity, supportive partners, unsupportive partners, and why women are so often expected to shrink themselves to make other people comfortable.

Somewhere in the middle of all this, we reminded you (and us) that you just gotta do what you want, no matter what people say - because once you make it, they WILL come around.

P.S: Sakshi has a new iPad but we still don’t have 100k subscribers. It’s very un-feminist of you to not hit subscribe so go do it now, along with liking commenting hyping following and adding our names to your final will and testament.

Chaptering:

00:00 – Intro, do you really need this

01:33 – Naina went viral on X, became the national crush, and announced her pregnancy

02:29 – What really went down in Chennai

05:25 – All the planning & plotting behind Sakshi’s birthday

12:00 – The many times we overextended ourselves

12:34 – Women’s careers and men… with credit-stealing stories

15:37 – The essay that had Sakshi fuming

21:22 – Cancelling a meeting for a partner

26:00 – Men vs women’s résumés

31:36 – A hack for all the men

33:12 – Why we said we still needed a man in our life

37:00 – OTPs becoming the next power play

49:40 – Sharing the household load

53:00 – The letters wrote in teens

01:02:44 – Supportive parents

01:04:29 – Therapy sessions, but the results

01:06:09 – Sakshi's jokes and her BF

01:08:37 – Defining what “normal” meant

01:09:43 – Like, Share, Comment & Subscribe

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Credits:Naina Bhan - Co-host and certified overthinker

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Sakshi Shivdasani - Co-host, balancing out Naina’s overthinking with a healthy dose of not thinking

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Senior Producer- Amruta P. https://www.linkedin.com/in/amruta-bandivdekar-01879925

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