What if the quickest way to change a room is to walk through it like a lion? That’s Priyanka’ Bhattacharya quiet superpower as a mother of premature twins living with cerebral palsy - an everyday practice of confidence that turns stares into smiles and replaces awkwardness with warmth.
We sit down with Priyanka to unpack the mindset behind her family’s joy. She takes us from NICU shock to high-intensity parenting, where every milestone feels like a gold medal and the details - sleep, nutrition, therapy, and rest - matter more than timelines. She shares the simple tools she uses to reset on hard days, from a five-minute cry to an audiobook chapter that flips her energy. We talk about making disability part of mainstream parenting, not a siloed topic reserved for diagnosis pages. Her phrase “progress is a Prada” becomes a lens: celebrate real wins, fit them to the child, and stop competing with age charts.
Priyanka’s path winds through advertising, Bollywood management, and fine art, and it informs how she faces the public square. At the airport, on sidewalks, at therapy centers - she meets questions with grace, humor, and a steady belief that people want to be kind; they just don’t always know how. We dig into practical support: why strangers’ genuine smiles matter, how friends can show up consistently without taking a no personally, and how to build a village that sustains mental energy as much as time. She opens up about caregiver guilt, dreams of creating a learning space for children with CVI, and the daily choice to define success as shared laughter at home.
If you’re a parent, caregiver, educator, or ally, this conversation offers grounded inspiration and real-life tactics for resilience, inclusion, and joy. Subscribe, share with someone who needs this, and leave a review with one mindset you’re ready to practice today.
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Host: Edit Kerekes, former diplomat, senior strategic advisor, mom of two.
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