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Just Like You Podcast, Kathmandu, Kathmandu (2026)

30/03/2021

Meet 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗮 — born to a Dutch father and Nepali mother, a female & children’s right activist. "𝗛𝗶𝘀 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲."

Sandra was taught at school that 𝗴𝗶𝗿𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗼𝘆𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹: “You couldn’t swear, wear short skirts or let your hair down . 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗯𝗼𝘆𝘀, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 . Boys got away with it all.”

It felt like a relieve when she moved to the Netherlands where girls could be witty, loud and talk to boys. Although she doesn’t feel discriminated much - “𝗔 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗱í𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗹.”

The one skill she learnt is 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘆: “I do not take offence but see it as a 𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲.”

Today, Sandra resides in Switzerland with her family while setting up her own publishing house. She feels “𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁-𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗼𝘆𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗼, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗚𝗼𝗱, 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗴𝗶𝗿𝗹”. It’s not just the aspect of being discriminated against or being told to behave according to a certain gender stereotype, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 (𝘀𝗲𝘅𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆) 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 in public or being accused of being a w***e because you sat in a cab with three other male friends.

“𝗜 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁. Most important is that I raise my sons 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲, 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗼𝘂𝘁. 𝗜 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗱.”

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Full story on our blog - link in bio

01/03/2021

💆🏻‍♀️ While obsessing over and his daily pieces of wisdom, we bumped into his -much more interesting- wife, . And while Jay's pieces of wisdom are motivational and helpful in life - his wife, little miss Sunshine, Radhi Devlukia is on a whóóóóle other level.

☀️ Radhi is a ray of light and an infectious ball of energy, who consistently brightens our Instagram feeds with her natural joy for life. She shares her own daily pieces of wisdom - in a funny, authentic and heart-opening way. For instance her interpretation on scriptures and pieces of wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita (one of the holy books of Hinduism that teaches universal truths related to principles on work, life, religion, philosophy and spirituality).

🍫 Next to spreading happiness through spirituality and wisdom, Radhi is an avid lover of Ayurveda which spills over into her love for vegan food. Not the I-only-eat-salads-tofu-and-chickpeas kinda vegan but the-give-me-more-cheese-and-bread-and-chocolate type of vegan. How can we not love a girl who understands that the way to one's heart is through (vegan) bread, cheese and chocolate?

🤷🏻‍♀️ It's refreshing to see her thrive by spreading positive energy about family and relationships, falling in love with a monk who didn't seem to have much to offer other than spiritual wisdom when they met, and not really knowing or caring about the make-up way of life.

💚 Radhi gives us hope that not everyone needs to aspire to become a but can spread happiness and "butterfly" their way through life, testing out different things, all the while adopting a positive approach to it. And the hope that as long you have your heart at the right place and have good intentions, while not being swayed too much by what others think of you, everything will turn out to be fine.

👯‍♀️ Have we become fangirls? Yes, yes we definitely did.

💥⚡️✨Happy start of the week, keep laughing, stay true to yourself and don't take life too seriously.

👀Find the entire article on Radhi up on our site (link in bio)

05/08/2020

👩🏻‍⚕️👩🏽‍💼👩🏼‍💻 “Doctor, lawyer or engineer - you choose” - that is in summary what many immigrant kids will hear when their parents lay out their career choices for them. When you’re young your parents are your ultimate source of wisdom. And they might’ve been right, in their times, but today we see so many more options that can bring a happy, satisfactory and sustainable future too.
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🇨🇳🇩🇪 Kicki Yang, Shanghai-born and Germany bred, was on her way following the conventional Asian path: speaking fluently German, Mandarin and English, perfecting her piano skills, ready to follow the Asian beauty standard to undergo double-eyelid surgery (Google it, it’s a thing) and specialising to become a chemical engineer following her parents’ paths: sensible and stable. Her dad studied computer science and her mom electrical engineering. Kicki suspected that her mother secretly just always had wanted to study art. Art, however, could not sustain a household while coming from communist China during the social revolution.
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👩🏻‍🎨While growing up in Germany she didn’t know where she belonged to and used art and creativity to help her explore her identity and heritage. Where her mother left off with an interest, Kicki picked up and continued to carve her own path quitting college and focusing on her true passion. Today she uses her platforms to express creativity and her identity but also to speak out about social matters, in specific racism, and create a sustainable future through living a vegan lifestyle.
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🥟The “little dumpling" noticed that her followers are mini-versions of her: Asian and born abroad. So she tries to be a bigger sister to them and create a positive impact. She wants her digital siblings to know that they’re not alone, that it’s possible to be in this industry éven if you’re Asian and that you truly can become anything you want in life as long as
“𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. 𝗜 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗱𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗳𝗳. Á𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸.”

13/07/2020

💁🏽‍♀️Zoë Kravitz. Do we need to explain ourselves? Utterly sexy and completely cool. We love the characters she has embodied up till now - 🎷Rob in the latest High Fidelity series (in the original series, Rob is male), 🧘🏽‍♀️Elizabeth in Big Little lies.. she knows exactly how to bring out girls that stand for anti-it, no-nonsense and naturally cool ❄️. We also love how behind that layer of cool, there’s a human soul that is sensitive and caring.

And alas - how can she not with Lenny Kravitz as dad, Lisa Bonet as mom, a little sprinkle of Khal Drogo as stepdad and Jewish genes to top it off with: the perfect melting pot of cool, je ne sais quois chique and utter confidence🔥

03/07/2020

Imagine being in 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞. Real love. Puppy love. Passionate love. Sometimes you’re lucky and you marry the love of your life. You have children with him, or her, and you grow old together. Or maybe not. But you still got to fall in love, fall out of it, get hurt, grieve some and do it all over again.
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Now imagine all of that is not a choice. You’re forced to marry. You’re not allowed to take compliments, wait.. you don't even know HOW to take a compliment because you’ve never been taught to. You’re not allowed to defend yourself, the men will do that for you. And of course: school is not for you. 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧.
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So when Shirley set off to Afghanistan to teach Afghani about equality , she was met with scepticism from others and to be frank: also by herself. She expected indifference, demeanour, indirect looks and hostility. Especially as a white woman teaching Afghani men about equality.
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Shirley described her experience in Afghanistan as an “upside down world”: everything she expected, she experienced the other way. So when she went in to plead for equality and expected all of the above from the Afghani men, and women, she was actually met with respect and openness. They understood that “𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝟓𝟎% 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨”.
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As for the women she met? They were fierce, independent and eager. Eager to learn more, to fight for a better future and take in compliments. One girl Shirley met whispered in her ear that “she had a love-marriage that 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒏’𝒕 arranged” because “her dad listened and understood real love”.
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So although this definitely is a story about a courageous woman going to Afghanistan fighting for equal rights. It’s also a story about hope and a little nudge from her to us all in to remember we are growing up privileged, to appreciate our freedom to choose our loves and the expectation that we’ll see them tomorrow.
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Plant little seeds. Have patience. 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 and then 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 and appreciate all the things in life, however small they are.

09/06/2020

She lived in a neighbourhood with high levels of poverty and crime. Police had evidence two men were selling drugs from her house. The judge even granted a “no-knock” warrant to enter her house (if a judge does that it must mean it’s serious business right???). Also, let’s not forget that Kenneth, her boyfriend, fired a gun at the police first. If that wasn’t convincing enough yet: both Kenneth and Breonna were black. ⠀
They got them. The drug dealers. They got them good - shot her 8 times (sure she won’t be dealing anymore drugs from her house) and got him arrested for assault, that’ll learn him for shooting at police officers. Good riddance.
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Right? Right?
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Wrong. ⠀
Breonna wasn’t dealing any drugs from her house, she was asleep. She wasn’t a drug dealer, she was an Emergency Room Technician (apparently the kind of person that saves other people’s lives). Her boyfriend shot the cops first, he shot the burglar first who entered his home in the middle of the night. Breonna was black and the police men were white.
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We might be onlooking from a distance but this is definitely hitting hard home and it’s hitting everyone. It’s Breonna in Louisville today, but it could be your EMT colleague in Hong Kong/Rome/New York tomorrow.
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We’re more aware of it than ever because of media, the internet and the ease of broadcasting. But it’s also easier than ever to turn a blind eye, switch to another channel, unfollow those accounts, not be affected by all of this and crawl back into our own holes of safety and comfort. The easy thing to do. The “comfortable” thing to do.
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Instead of being comfortable we’ll read one more book, listen to one more podcast, watch one more Netflix documentary, we’ll donate and match any sales through our website with donations to BlackLivesMatter. One little thing at a time.
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We’re saying your name Breonna Taylor, we will remember you George Floyd and we won’t forget you Tony McDade ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

26/04/2020

🌎 Greta Thurnberg. She made caring for the environment cool. She made Asperger’s cool. She made being smart cool. She made being an activist cool. She made taking the train cool. She made having her facts straight about emission levels and international reports cool. She made pushing for climate change on the political agenda cool.
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💁‍♀️She made Sweden even cooler. She makes youth cool. Actually.. she’s more than cool. Cool might even be an insult. Greta, she gives us hope. She’s that spark of hope of the next generation will not only be selfish, will not only care about or ask for botox injections for birthdays.
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✨Greta is a spark of hope that gives us hope that kids out there are growing up cooler, smarter, more caring, more investigative and turning use of media into good.
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⚡️Greta, cool girl making the word a cooler place.

24/03/2020

1. Our friends and family who are safe
2. Netflix and wine
3. Doctors. Heroes. 👩🏻‍⚕️
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22/03/2020

be fearless 🙅🏻‍♀️
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10/03/2020

👸🏻 My asian mom.. sometimes utterly annoying because of their constant worrying, stressing and smothering. Taking care of everyone, except for themselves. I used to take it for granted, sometimes got annoyed, but now just realise how much she has sacrificed and does not understand, because she has never experienced “our current lives”.
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🙇🏻‍♀️ Where I grew up wearing my jeans inside out, dyeing my hair blond and being extremely loud and provocative with anyone in a 2 metre vicinity (puberty, is that you?) - Mom and her lady friends would be 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 if they would wear jeans, do anything of the above or do anything that would make them stand out in general. Their teachers in communist China would commence the day by announcing the black sheep in front of everyone at school.
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👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Where I “𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒗𝒂𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏” and “𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝑰 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆”, racking up on carbon emission points where Greta Thunberg would, rightfully so, bitchslap me in the face for, mom would sleep in a 6m² space with her 3 younger brothers until her 18th year. At 19 “she really got out there” and was sent to the Netherlands to provide for her family.
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🤷🏻‍♂️🙅🏻‍♂️Where we 𝒔𝒘𝒊𝒑𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕/𝒔𝒘𝒊𝒑𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒇𝒕/𝒔𝒘𝒊𝒑𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕/𝒔𝒘𝒊𝒑𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒇𝒕, mom could choose between my dad or my uncle as marriage was required within a short time of arrival, out of fear for deportation back to China otherwise. Mom’s aunt “swiped right” and chose dad, because “your uncle was younger than I was”.
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🇨🇳 Where we grew up with main concerns whether person X “got her nose fixed, did she? Omg did she really?”, mom grew up with the main concern whether cousin X “was still alive or not, they might’ve taken him” at one of the riots during the cultural revolution.
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✨✨✨ 𝑾𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒂𝒚, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑨𝒔𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒎’𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒎, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚’𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒚.
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👩🏼 👩🏻‍🏫👩🏽‍🚒It’s International Women’s Day everyday, it’s mother’s day everyday, it’s you-day all day.

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