Choosing Peace in a Loud World | Identity, Fears, and Stop Living for Other’s Opinions

Urmi Hossain’s happiness word is “peace,” and she describes it as a long‑term inner stability—like market volatility with ups and downs in the short term, but a steady trend line over time. In this episode of Women’s Health, Wealth, and Happiness | Interviews to Inspire, she and Christina talk about what it really means to be at peace with yourself, your past choices, your relationships, and the cultures that shaped you, beyond any material definition of success.​Urmi shares how years of questioning her cultural identity—being Italian by birth, Bengali by heritage, and Canadian by law—eventually led her to claim “Italian Bengali” on her own terms and stop letting other people define who she should be. She explains how that choice, along with seeing fear as a friend instead of an enemy, helped her walk through her biggest fear: other people’s opinions, judgment, and backlash, especially as a South Asian woman using her voice publicly.​​Along the way, Urmi offers practical practices that support her peace: long solo walks, reframing negative self‑talk into affirming statements, journaling, and doing deep inner work to understand her patterns. She encourages women to stop chasing peace in other people and instead explore their own passions, service, and communities, trusting that following curiosity, volunteering, and building authentic connections will naturally weave together soul richness, joy, and peace. She also introduces her book Discovering Your Identity: A Rebirth from Interracial Struggle, a memoir of growing up South Asian in Italy, navigating strict home expectations and Western culture, and ultimately creating a blended identity that finally felt like home.​​#innerpeace #happinessjourney #culturalidentity #womenempowerment #healthwealthhappiness____________________ YouTube: @interviewstoinpirehttps://www.youtube.com/@interviewstoinspireSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4c7PZX19CDFAOkEhfGUoAAhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/interviewstoinspireApple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/womens-health-wealth-and-happiness-interviews-to-inspire/id1808177271Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/interviewstoinspire/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/interviewstoinspireLinkedin: LET’S CONNECThttps://www.linkedin.com/in/christinavidovich/https://www.linkedin.com/company/interviewstoinspire____________________ #entrepreneurs #whwhi2i #healthwealthhappiness #interviewstoinspire #ChristinaVidovich#womenempoweringwomen #inspirationalwomen #trailblazingwomen #womenpodcast #womeninterviews #inspiring #women#inspirationalinterviews #visibility ____________________ Women's Health, Wealth, and Happiness | Interviews to Inspire ZIMAF entertainment international ©2025