lkkpodcast (2025)

17/03/2021

It really is not any more complicated than that.

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Our thoughts and prayers are with our friends and families from the Asian community today. The horrific acts and injustice they have been facing not just today but all of last year has no place in a world of decency or humanity.

16/03/2021

Landing on the third Tuesday of every March, World Social Work day recognizes the hard work, dedication, and tireless diligence of social workers everywhere. 💡Social workers serve their communities in many ways. From child welfare to human services, they protect and serve children and families in need of assistance. 👧🧑Clinical social workers also treat and diagnose behavioral, mental, and emotional issues. 🌚🌝On this day, and everyday, we thank social workers for their energetic efforts.
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10/03/2021

Natasha Khawja-McGowan () on breaking cycles of negativity and unrealistic standards of beauty and self-worth.🌼⁣
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Tune in this week to hear Natasha talk about her take on life, the difficulties she faced, and the beauty in finding the strength to keep going regardless of what’s thrown her way. Our favorite piece of wisdom Natasha shared with us? Feel the fear and do it anyway. ✨

10/03/2021

Life experiences and growth. Conditional love and family expectations. South-Asian culture and American/Candian/Western upbringing and influences. Choosing your own path and facing hardships, broken relationships, and gaining a deeper understanding of self-worth in the process. We talk about all of the above and a lot more in introducing one of our newest LKK Log, the beautiful and strong, Natasha Khawja-McGowan (), ❤️ a Pakistani-American/Canadian actress, blogger, and all-around positive influence promoting a love for life we are so inspired by. ❤️⁣
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Tune in this week to hear Natasha talk about her take on life, the difficulties she faced, and the beauty in finding the strength to keep going regardless of what’s thrown her way. Our favorite piece of wisdom Natasha shared with us? Feel the fear and do it anyway. ✨

08/03/2021

Celebrating all the good female energy today and always! ✨🌻

05/03/2021

Meet Our Log (Our People) #7: ⁣
Natasha Khawja-McGowan⁣ ( )
From Natasha’s desk in California⁣
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My name is Natasha Khawja-McGowan. I’m a Pakistani-American/Canadian actress, dreamer, dog mom, fitness enthusiast and overall lover of life. I'm also a newlywed and currently live in Los Angeles with my husband, Sam. I created my blog in hopes of sharing my experiences through a South Asian lens and helping others in knowing they aren't alone.

01/03/2021

(1/2) As Black History Month concludes, it is important to remember that celebrating black history should not come to end, but rather carry over into our everyday lives. Although there have been thousands of influential black people throughout the years, here are a few to commemorate: ⁣
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1. Stacey Abrams⁣
- Nominated for a Nobel peace prize for her work in increasing voter turnout in her home state. ⁣
- First black woman to be nominated for governor by a major party in the US. ⁣
- She is an author and lawyer ⁣
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2. Martin Luther king ⁣
He was a civil rights activist who led non-violent protests across the country to fight for the rights of African Americans. Considered one of the greatest activists in modern history. ⁣
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3. Harriet Tubman ⁣
Harriet was a slave on a plantation in Maryland for the first part of her life. When she escaped, she became a conductor on the Underground Railroad. This wasn’t a real railroad, but rather a few “safe places” that hid slaves as they traveled north to freedom. In addition, during the civil war, she was a nurse who helped injured soldiers, served as a spy, and helped a military campaign which helped to rescue 750 slaves. ⁣
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4. Rosa Parks ⁣
Rosa Parks is known for refusing to move to the back of the bus after being demanded to give her seat to a white passenger. Although she was not the first to stand up to segregation laws, she made a great impression on people across the United States. ⁣
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5. Frederick Douglas⁣
He was a prominent abolitionist during the Civil war era. As an activist, author and public speaker, he spread awareness in pursuit of abolishing slavery. ⁣
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6. W.E.B Du Bois ⁣
During the era before MLK and Rosa Parks, Du Bois actively fought for the civil rights for African Americans. He wrote essays which exposed the racism within the system. ⁣

26/02/2021

(1/2)H E L L O!!!
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Despite our best efforts and being hyper-vigilant for a year, over the last two weeks, our whole family got diagnosed with COVID-19. Like many people we hear of, this was a case of living-room spread and not any one person’s fault :( But today officially marks our end of quarantine and we wanted to share our first-hand experience of what went down, what helped, what absolutely didn’t, and our hopes of finally getting on the road to recovery.⁣
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> First - this thing hits you like a truck😀 Massive truck! 😀 The speed with which our bodies shut down, physically and mentally was shocking. Congestion like the flu, inability to breathe and the pain was too much to handle. Even moving to get water or flipping onto your side when sleeping was so hard. Talking more than a few words at a time knocked our breath out. And the fever and chills at night are too uncomfortable to recall. Some natural and home remedies that helped in addition to what our doctors officially recommended:⁣
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> VITAMIN C 🍊 + lots of fluids. We had a mini stockpile of Emergen-C, coconut water, Vitamin Water, and regular ol’ H2O to keep ourselves from dehydrating. But that’s not enough! We reminded each other to keep drinking all of this even if we did not feel like it. Also, the Traditional Medicinals Organic Throat Coat Lemon Echinacea Herbal Tea pulled us out of some tricky cough situations. And never forgetting the friend from our brown childhoods, Vicks Vaporub!⁣
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> Everything about the loss of taste and smell is too true. What really is the point of eating anything when you can’t taste it? 😅 The sadness was real when we couldn’t taste Nutella :( Fascinating discovery: microwave popcorn happened to be the only salt and butter we could taste and it got us through some tasteless days. ⁣
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> Clorox wipes and Tide fabric disinfectants: Did you know that the virus can stay on fabric surfaces for up to 3 days? Its amazing how many things and surfaces we touch in a day! To get healthier quicker, we had to keep cleaning/disinfecting as much as possible along the way with a big deep-clean at the end of it all. ⁣

14/02/2021

Happy Valentines Day! ❤️
No matter how or who you are spending your day with, remember to love the most important thing - yourself :)

06/02/2021

Join us this week as we have a one-of-a-kind, frank conversation with Ram () about the skewed perception of s*x and abuse in our culture and the importance of a proper education around it as a society.  ——
Help resources:

The Survivor’s Trust (U.K) - 08088.010818 (Free. Confidential)
 Rainn.org (U.S) - National Sexual Assault Hotline | 800.656.HOPE (Free. Confidential. 24/7)

06/02/2021

Trigger warning: This episode contains material about s*xual abuse and violence. We acknowledge that this content may be difficult for some listeners and encourage care for your safety and well-being. For resources, please see the end of this post.

About a week ago, we came across ’s post about young boys experiencing s*xual abuse. To say the presented statistics were shocking and eye-opening is an understatement. Abuse, s*x, r**e - are all taboo topics (even words) in South Asian culture. They are closer to home than we think and mostly used in the context of women or girls experiencing them - putting a blindfold on us as a society because boys/men are equally at risk and experiencing abuse too. Often unreported and unacknowledged abuse. To add to the seriousness of the situation, these conversations are hard to have; adults often get uncomfortable when it comes to educating their kids about these delicate yet severely important realities of our world. Join us this week as we have a one-of-a-kind, frank conversation with Ram () about the skewed perception of s*x and abuse in our culture and the importance of a proper education around it as a society.  ——
The Survivor’s Trust (U.K) - 08088.010818 (Free. Confidential)
 Rainn.org (U.S) - National Sexual Assault Hotline | 800.656.HOPE (Free. Confidential. 24/7)

26/01/2021

This book recommendation comes from ⁣Fatima Kasher :)
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How do you just not give a f*ck? This question is one sought out by many but the answer is up to your interpretation. The Subtle Art of not Giving a f*ck will help you find your viewpoint on it. There is so much insight that it can somewhat be overwhelming, but there are some unforgettable lessons in there. One of the many things it taught me is that the goal is not to stop caring about everything, it’s to start caring about less things, but those things should actually matter to you. Start like this: if you accept a negative occurrence in your life, isn’t that ultimately a positive thing? Acceptance, then moving on. Negate the things that do not matter. If you are not going to be worrying about it 15 days from now, what is the point in worrying about it right now, in this moment? In addition, there is no reason to be a close-minded person. Listening to opposing point of views is not a crime, but rather a blessing. It’s important to view thing like others do, even if it is just for a moment. Just utilize the information you are given to concentrate on what is actually important to you. To be honest, death is inevitable and in this short short life, we only have a certain amount of f*cks to give, so use them where they are actually required and valuable. Don’t waste them.

25/01/2021

“Love yourself” - I have heard this so many times over the course of the last month. Probably more than ever as we collectively reach almost a year of quarantine and lockdowns. I will not lie - I have found myself in circles - of ups and downs lately. Feeling motivated to take care of myself, all in on exercise, meditation or balance for three weeks. But throw in one variable to disturb the equation (life!) and it takes mere moments to dismantle my “streaks” of working out or breathing.

So if you are reading this and can relate: I’ll let you in on a small insight I gained from my own patterns: focusing on yourself can mean taking a minute each day to breathe if not the full twenty minutes, 500 steps if not the full 10,000, 2 good hours of work if not the 6 productive ones you had planned.

As long as i am doing at least one thing for myself against the two I “have” to do, I am finding that self-care comes in all shapes and forms. I just have to remember to be kind to myself and just keep swimming’ as my favorite fish says. 🐠✨

16/01/2021

Yes - this is us dreaming of sitting across the table and sharing in-person convo over coffee or hot chocolate with our friends again. :) We are so excited to be kicking off 2021 with a dear friend, Pree ❤️ (the wonderful ) - talking about her adventures in Italy, 🇮🇹the realities of learning new languages and culture 🌎, ambitious goals like PhDs, and the balancing act of taking care of oneself 📚- and how tired we are of ‘new-year resolutions’ that are never meant to stick. ❌ Join us as we catch up with Pree over Zoom (for now🤞) about transitioning into a new year and how any new promises or resolutions with this turn around the Sun should only be to ourselves - mind, body, and soul. ❤️🧘🏽

05/01/2021

Happy New Years from LKK! ✨♥️💓

30/12/2020

There is no straightforward book/guide telling us what to expect from life-changing events like the diagnosis of a chronic illness. Whether as the one being diagnosed or being the care partner of the diagnosed. The challenges of living with a condition, like fibromyalgia which means constant pain 24/7, are hard in itself, let alone navigating through the challenges of everyday growth which is life.

Meet Arushi ()- a truly inspiring, wondrous spirit who shares her journey of being brave through the pain and working hard every day, using her energy towards making what others might have (mistakenly) seen as her weakness into fuel for positivity and spreading awareness about what it means to truly fight a chronic illness. She is the definition of not worrying about ‘log kya kahenge’. ❤️

We spent an hour talking and became her inspired, proud friends - join us in listening to her story this week and we can bet you will leave inspired and motivated to live every moment of your life to its fullest. ❤️

20/12/2020

Joining us this week is Tina Aswani Omprakash, founder of and blogger, patient thought leader, super advocate and South Asian health activist for chronic illnesses from our community! ❤️ ! ✨ Come along with us as we talk about experiences living with chronic illnesses in the South Asian community, accepting yourself first and the importance of choosing individual health and life before the unfair (and often unrealistic) expectations of the world of what “normal” is.
Listen now ✨

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