Living and working differently takes careful planning, attention and, well... work! When we learn to be just as passionate about our well-being and community as we are about our passions and callings in life, we can be truly limitless. In this episode, Komal shares about her transformative experiences in the personal development space, and how they led her to set out on a path to create a curriculum and framework to help folks grow their resiliency.

Our success, no matter how small, deserves to celebrated, but self-doubt can creep in and make us forget that we are worthy of our wins. In this episode, Komal talks about what it’s like to come out of a season of quiet work and bet on yourself as you set out to achieve your goals.

Komal talks to Deepica Mutyala, Founder of Live Tinted about redefining our relationship to work and success. Deepica shares her story of why she refused to buy into other people’s expectations for her life and career and the narrative that she couldn’t work and be well. Komal and Deepica also talk about what it means to build a sustainable relationship to work, and how connecting to your mission can help you build the career of your dreams.

Valarie Kaur is a civil rights attorney, Sikh activist, and author of “See No Stranger”. In this conversation, Komal talks to Valarie about the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation, the concept of love as a verb that requires labour and care, and the ways that connecting to our ancestry and identity can help us amplify our impact and root into ourselves. Trigger warning: Mention of Sexual Assault.

Grief during a pandemic is complicated. Whether it is unpacking our grief around the loss of our friends, loved ones, or others, or the loss of parts of ourselves and our lives, our grief deserves our care and attention. In this short solo episode, Komal shares mores about the space she gave herself over the last two weeks as she encountered a depth of grief and vulnerability, and the process of lifting herself back up.

This week, Komal revisits a Mother’s Day episode she recorded last year about the lessons we have learned from our mothers. “I am bringing you into my relationship with two important women in my life, my mother (Ma), and my maternal grandmother (Nani Ma). I asked and recorded them sharing about the lessons their mothers taught them. It was the first time I’d ever heard my grandmother speak about her own mom, Ama. It was so beautiful and so funny.

Part Two, "You Have Permission": In this special four-part series, Komal reflects on the insights and wisdom of the guests from The Next Right Step program. In part two, she shares her conversation with Luvvie Ajayi Jones., best-selling author, speaker, and professional troublemaker.

Part One, "Boundaries": In this special four-part series, Komal reflects on the insights and wisdom of the guests from The Next Right Step program. In part one, she shares her conversation with Minaa B., licensed therapist and self-described boundary expert. We learn how to create strong boundaries and how to honour ourselves and those we love in the process. We also explore how to navigate boundaries with work, how to navigate the fear that can come when creating and sustaining boundaries and more.

Komal is back with Season 2! This week she talks about slowing down in order to go fast, strong, and resiliently later, and the quiet work that began out of the pandemic after recovering from burnout.

The wait is (almost) over: Komal will be back next week with a new and refreshed season of "Lessons Learned". Subscribe for deep conversations, uncomfortable but necessary lessons, and tender moments of self-care.

Join Komal and Tejal Patel aka@TejalYoga and host of the “Yoga Is Dead” podcast this week for a chat about reclaiming wellness spaces, embodying our identities, and fighting for social justice.

This week, Komal interviews Cassandra Lam, Co-Founder of Cosmos, a community and space for Asian womxn to care for themselves, their community, and their world. Tune in to hear them talk about how you can begin to reconnect to your identity, inner guidance system, and spirituality.

Join Komal for a powerful conversation with Eddie Ndopu, an award-winning activist, humanitarian, public intellectual, and global advocate appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the Sustainable Development Goals. They discuss what it means to live a phenomenal life, to lean into possibility and potential, and to stand tall as we enter rooms and spaces that formerly excluded those of our identities.

In this episode, I interview money expert and founder of @HerFirst100K community Tori Dunlap. We talk about building confidence with money, getting out of the ‘scarcity’ mindset, past the shame and judgment that we place on ourselves when it comes to finances, and tell you the ways that financial literacy can change your life.

In this episode, Sarah Nicole Landry @thebirdspapaya tells us about the changes she has noticed in herself since her last pregnancy as she prepares to deliver a new baby within the next few months. We have an incredibly deep and heartwarming conversation about what it means to advocate for yourself and ask for help when you need it, and how she has learned to become an advocate for herself, her body, and her boundaries through her lived experience and her pregnancy in the past few months.

It’s Sunday, after the US Presidential election, and Kamala Harris is the Vice President-Elect of the United States. A South Asian, Black woman is set to become the Vice President of the United States of America. In this week’s episode, I reflect on everything that is in my heart when it comes to the change that’s happened. What the last 4 years have been like in my life, and why it’s important that we make meaning of the changes that are happening and to take a second to enjoy this moment.

Today’s episode is one I recorded before the election results were announced, and is focused on just that… how might we create more space for joy in our lives as winter knocks at the door. We explore the Danish concept of Hygge, and I share how I am hunkering down and preparing for the best winter I’ve ever experienced… I believe it’s possible, and these are the steps I’m taking to make it happen. - Komal Minhas

Komal is back with her first solo-show after two months. In this episode, Komal talks about what life has been like since she wrapped her first cohort of ‘The Next Right Step Program’ and had a dramatic change in routine travelling back home to Grand Prairie. Now back home in Ottawa, Komal reflects on her time in Alberta and shares a recent experience with burnout, and how this experience reinforced for her that planning is instrumental to her mental health and well-being.

Have you ever felt that the more organized you are with your goals and plans, the less things are running through your mind throughout the day? In this rewind episode while on vacation in Mexico, Komal reflects on the changes in the quality of her mind from when she was last on vacation the year before and how much things have changed since then. While reflecting on the goals she set out to accomplish in the past year, Komal shares her system of yearly organization and planning that has allowed her to have more freedom in her mind and life. Tune in to this episode to hear how organizing and planning for the year ahead gives Komal more confidence to go forward in life and with her passions and helps her better support herself both professionally, mentally, and physically.

This week, join Komal in this recap episode where she set out on an investigation on resilience. I wanted to bring this episode back given the hard times that we are all facing as a collective, and provide you with some helpful tools to build your resilience and build habits that can become healthy coping mechanisms for when things get hard and when we are triggered.