Ep 41: Moms Gopika Kapoor & Moneisha Gandhi: On Buddy Up, a friendship app for people with disabilities

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Swishing Mindsets with Anuradha Varma

Anuradha Varma

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Listen in to conversations that "swish" or shift your perspective! Journalist and Mindset Coach Anuradha Varma interviews a diverse cast of people who share their expertise and experiences on a range of themes, across spirituality, inclusivity, entrepreneurship, mythology, and popular culture. Follow and share to stay updated and grow the conversation.

Anuradha is a journalist with nearly three decades of experience, having worked as head of Parenting for Indian Express Online, editor of interiors magazine Casaviva, as well as with publications such as The Times of India, The Pioneer, etc. She is also a certified Mindset Coach with expertise in Mindfulness, EFT and NLP.

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Ep 41: Moms Gopika Kapoor & Moneisha Gandhi: On Buddy Up, a friendship app for people with disabilities

Swishing Mindsets with Anuradha Varma

58 minutes

11 months ago

Ep 41: Moms Gopika Kapoor & Moneisha Gandhi: On Buddy Up, a friendship app for people with disabilities

When Mumbai-based Gopika Kapoor and Moneisha Gandhi, moms of Vir Kapoor and Mihaan Dhall, witnessed how life-changing friendship proved to be for their neurodivergent young sons, they decided to launch Buddy Up – A Friendship App for People with Disabilities & their Caregivers. While Vir, who is on the autism spectrum, is quiet, Mihaan, who has Down Syndrome, loves to talk non-stop, the two clicked and now “buddy up” for concerts, sleepovers, board games and dance parties. Listen in as Gopika and Moneisha talk about their app and how friendship is the best therapy.

While Gopika is a neurodiversity consultant and an author, who also wrote the book Beyond the Blue: Love, Life & Autism on her parenting experience, Moneisha formerly ran an embroidery export company and volunteers at the Ummeed Parent Resource Centre. Both are advocates of diversity and inclusion.

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Timestamps
00:54 Gopika’s introduction and meeting Moneisha
05:08 Moneisha’s introduction, finding friends for Mihaan
15:13 An uncomplicated friendship
16:16 Navigating siblings
21:17 About Buddy Up
24:50 Support for newly diagnosed parents of neurodivergent kids
26:00 Gopika’s book and five stages of grief after diagnosis
29:30 Spreading the word about Buddy Up
32:40 Learnings from neurodivergent focus groups
37:00 How the Buddy Up app works
43:00 How parents can make social connections
46:15 Moneisha on meeting the parent of an older Down Syndrome child
48:00 Stimming and what it means
56:25 Moneisha’s son’s experience in an inclusive school

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