Prickly Peers
by Prickly Peers
Have you ever wondered why some brown women can stand up to norms and stereotypes more easily than the rest of us? We call them prickly women! Is prickliness inherent or inherited, can you build the prickly muscle to be able to achieve your goals more easily, where do you lie on the prickly meter? Join Ankita and Nalini, your prickly peers, as they talk to uninhibited brown women all over the world in a quest to find the secret brown sauce for their courage, success and happiness. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram and X @thepricklypeers. Or write to us at [email protected]. See less
Episodes
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S03E09: How (& where) to find a life partner - the Prickly Peers framework for independent women
Send us Fan Mail In typical season finale format, Nalini and Ankita meet up to summarize everything they heard and learnt this season about what it means to be or have a life partner the non traditional way, where to go looking for such a person, when to STOP looking (using the 37% rule) and...
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S03E08: Malvika gaur on being more than a queer brown person in a life-partnership
Send us Fan Mail Growing up in New Delhi as the youngest of the 3 daughters in a “normal” Indian family, Malvika always knew she was different than her sisters and people around. From wanting to wear a tuxedo to a wedding as a child to owning her “tom-boyish” identity as a teenager, Malvika…
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S03E07: The "Part 2 Order": Discovering myself while transitioning from Aboli to Mrs Praful to the war widow of (Late) Major Praful Moharkar
Send us Fan Mail When 17 year old Aboli fell in love for the first time, she couldn't have begun to imagine what life had in store for the both of them. Praful and Aboli didn't get to choose if and when to marry, because of the rules around Part 2 Order in the Indian Defence forces. Armed forces...
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S03E06: Priyanka Rai - Finding life partnership with my best friend, moving across the world to live with her
Send us Fan Mail Priyanka and Manisha grew up as conventional childhood best friends not knowing the future of their friendship when they got old. It turns out, whenever life got tough, through their twenties and thirties, they gravitated towards each other geographically moving cities, states…
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S03E05: Natasha and Bob on choosing to be in love as "unmarried" life-partners
Send us Fan Mail "Hi, I am Natasha and I am divorced" was how she introduced herself to Bob the first time they met at his band's concert. Bob told her the same day, "I snore". That became the stereotypical 'love-at-first sight' beginning of this everything-but-stereotypical relationship based on...
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S03E04: Aditi on finding love after giving up, being too successful for arranged marriage matches
Send us Fan Mail Aditi Goyal grew up in Punjab, where the norm was to get girls married between the ages of 18-21. She got into the squid games of the big fat Indian arranged marriage in her early twenties. Unlike academics, jobs and every other competitive sport where she could control outcomes…
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S03E03: Harshal & Namrata rediscovered individuality after ten years of marriage
Send us Fan Mail Namrata grew up near Delhi observing educated women selling themselves short by marrying and playing stereotypical gender roles, Harshal grew up in Pune admiring his only neighbor who helped his wife with chores despite being laughed upon! A match made in heaven? More like…
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S03E02: Single and fulfilled women (NOT A MYTH)- A Millennials vs GenZ perspective
Send us Fan Mail If not men, who could be the lifelong sharer of joys and sorrows for single (by choice or circumstance) women? Join Nalini as she quizzes our two self assured, dynamic single guests, on their diverse dating stories, first principle ideas on life long partnerships, Indian…
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S03E01: 'Spouse it Up!': Let's find that futuristic spouse together
Send us Fan Mail The prickly peers, Ankita and Nalini are back; and have been out there asking some very personal questions while doing their own research on lifelong marital partnerships, singledom ( if that's a word!) and everything in between. They strongly believe our lives along with...
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S02E10: On Purpose - Season Wrap with a bonus 'find your purpose' framework
Send us Fan Mail Join Ankita and Nalini as they reflect on the key insights and lessons learned from this season's prickly guests. From a lawyer pivoting to a new career in the Indian armed forces, to a successful HR leader taking a well-being sabbatical, and an engineer who knew from day one…
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S02E09: Namrata Kohli on surviving a near death experience and finding purpose in telling her story
Send us Fan Mail Namrata thought of herself as an average corporate woman with a loving partner & family, no children (by choice) and a travel bug but with no real story to tell, till one day, she and her husband were caught and injured in one of the worst earthquakes Taiwan had ever seen. How…
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S02E08: Naomi Sheedy aka haalchaal project on recognizing burnout, finding meaning everyday through yoga and ayurveda
Send us Fan Mail Naomi grew up as confident Indian girl in a protected environment who mostly went with the flow for everything, from her education, career in banking and places she lived. Despite wanderlust, moving multiple countries from India to UK, US, Hong Kong for jobs she didn't…
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S02E07: Ananya Sabharwal on taking a sabbatical and coming back to a purpose-aligned job & life
Send us Fan Mail Beyond from her day job of being an HR leader at Unilever, Ananya was always curious about self-discovery. So, she decided to take an unpaid leave from her very supportive employer to find herself. She tells us how this helped her find the love of her life, apart from getting to...
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S02E06: Krati Tandon (founder, filmmaker, poet, PM) on how many goals are too many
Send us Fan Mail Growing up between her hometown Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh and her boarding school Mayo College, Ajmer, all Krati wanted was A JOB with financial independence and to NOT be an entrepreneur like her dad. 30 something years later, she finds herself extremely fulfilled as the founder…
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S02E05: Sonali on quitting corporate law and joining the Indian Armed Forces
Send us Fan Mail Would you trade a lifetime of high paying corporate law jobs in air conditioned offices across the world to parade and roll bareback on hot concrete roads in South Indian summer? Sonali did, with a smile on her face, because she couldn't bare the thought of staying away from her...
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S02E04: Neha Molugu on finding her soul-aligned career curating retreats, shedding her 'insecure overachiever' corporate identity
Send us Fan Mail Neha Molugu was your average overachieving Hyderabad girl, who went to top schools SRCC Delhi, INSEAD Paris and worked at top companies like Google and L'Oreal to make her parents and the academically oriented society happy. But one day on the metro to work in Paris, she...
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Endometriosis Awareness Month Special: Which is harder- fighting Endo or a society that doesn't believe you?
Send us Fan Mail Would you be able to define endometriosis? We couldn't. Not until we spoke to Rashmi Bhutani, an endo-warrior. Join us as we chat with Rashmi about her experience and learn a little more about what she learnt when she decided to fight back against notions that extreme period pain...
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S02E03: Honey Pamnani on being an eternal optimist and living to find unadulterated happiness
Send us Fan Mail While pursuing her engineering degree, Honey Pamnani just knew she wanted to do something meaningful with her life to bring about societal changes. That led her to take up a law degree right after! Since then, she designed a multitude of pivots in her life to align herself better...
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S02E02: Ayesha Rao on pivoting from an employee to a co-founder
Send us Fan Mail On day 1 of her first job, a lifelong introvert and an IT engineer Ayesha knew in her gut, the big corporate world was not for her. She then looked back at what gave her unparalleled joy in the past to guide her future. She talks to Nalini about being a female brown founder in…
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S02E01: On Purpose
Send us Fan Mail What is season 2 about? Join Ankita & Nalini as they ponder on all questions related to purpose? Is purpose essential to life? Does one have to pass through a trial of fire to discover life's purpose? Have our guests heard of the Golden Circle? All this and more; only on Season…
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S01E09 Season Wrap: My Mother Said
Send us Fan Mail Phew! It's been quite the journey. When we first finalized the topic for Season 1, we had no idea how controversial it would end up being; from being criticized for our topic choices, the difficult search for guests to having guests drop out last minute, to say it was 'eventful'...
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S01E08: My Mother Said...why get divorced after a love marriage?
Send us Fan Mail Swagatika Priyadarshini grew up in an Indian small town (Rourkela, Odisha) with big ambitions and a bold, independent mother. Her mum, her first prickly peer, didn't let societal biases around skin tone or gender ever come in the way of Swagatika becoming the best version of...
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S01E07: My Mother Said.... You are a Rajput girl, don't be scared
Send us Fan Mail Bravery, fearlessness and sacrifice are often admirable traits. Yet, what happens when they are taught in the name of caste and at the cost of all other emotions? Join Ankita as she chats with Rashmi- an emotional intelligence coach in Malaysia, who battled her own human emotions...
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S01E06: My Mother Said... Study or you will wash utensils for a living
Send us Fan Mail Did your mother ever point to the housemaid to scare you into doing your homework? Paromita's college professor mother painted a vivid picture of her future as a professional maid if she didn't stay top of her class. Today, for a living, a very self assured Paromita, apart from...
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S01E05: My Mother Said... Mechanical engineers wear boiler suits and use hammers, study something else
Send us Fan Mail What does it take for a prickly girl surrounded by a conservative religious Bihari society to turn into a confident prickly woman, when her mother worries about the safety and societal acceptability of her 'different' daughter, every day of her life? Prerna grew up fighting minor...
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S01E04: My Mother Said...you're 30, if not now, when??
Send us Fan Mail When is the best time to have a kid? Most South Asian mothers (or aunties) will answer even before they are asked, "definitely before you turn 30". As babies from frozen embryos and eggs to older parents become more common, more couples are deciding parenthood is not for them.…
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S01E03: My Mother Said...don't swim, let's buy you gold instead
Send us Fan Mail Over 30 years ago, as Ayesha watched her brothers dive into a pool, her mother gave her daughter two options nudging her to choose the latter : learn to swim or accompany her on a gold shopping expedition. Join Ankita and Ayesha as they explore the significance and impact of the...
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S01E02: My Mother Said.....can't make chai, how will you get married?
Send us Fan Mail Did you get pushed into learning to cook by your mother? Or more specifically - can you boil a cup of chai to an Indian mother's perfect standard? Ankita decided to never perfect the art; as a way of daily rebellion against the absurd traditional connection of cooking and being...
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S01E01: My Mother Said.....don't leave Google
Send us Fan Mail Mothers are the first influencers in our life. Almost everyone we meet quotes their mother as a role model or has their mother to thank for shaping the person they are. But what happens when the mother's love for stability is not in line with her daughter's innate free spirit?...
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Prickly Peers: Trailer
Send us Fan Mail Have you ever wondered why some brown women can stand up to norms and stereotypes more easily than the rest of us? We call them prickly women! Is prickliness inherent or inherited, can you build the prickly muscle to be able to achieve your goals more easily, where do you lie on...
About this show
Have you ever wondered why some brown women can stand up to norms and stereotypes more easily than the rest of us? We call them prickly women! Is prickliness inherent or inherited, can you build the prickly muscle to be able to achieve your goals more easily, where do you lie on the prickly meter? Join Ankita and Nalini, your prickly peers, as they talk to uninhibited brown women all over the world in a quest to find the secret brown sauce for their courage, success and happiness.
Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram and X @thepricklypeers. Or write to us at [email protected].
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