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Geeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 31: Geeta Girl Discusses Sorry not Sorry: Saying No Without GuiltWe know setting boundaries can be tough. In this podcast, we go through a few more listener questions.
Raise your hand if any of these scenarios resonate with you:
Are you a fixer? Does everyone come to you to fix their problems? Are you wondering when they will learn to solve their own issues? It may be time to draw that boundary.
Are you a people pleaser? Are people always asking you for favors? If you are feeling stretched thin, you guessed it – it’s time to draw that boundary.
And how...2025-06-1840 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 30: Geeta Girl Discusses Building the Strength to Build Strong BoundariesWhat do you think would have happened if Arjuna had set some boundaries with his cousins a lot earlier? Well, his inability to set them gave us the Geeta so we won’t judge him too much but YOU, dear listener have the power to prevent a war! As we learned from Arjuna, the more you procrastinate expressing your boundaries, the more people will expect that you don’t have them. In this episode, we go over a few listener questions to illustrate how to do your duty by standing up for yourself and building strong boundaries.
Chec...2025-05-0739 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 29: Geeta Girl Discusses You’ve Got To Express YourselfSetting boundaries is essential for healthy relationships, but knowing how to communicate them effectively can be challenging. In this episode, we explore the art of communicating personal boundaries with clarity, confidence, and compassion. Whether it’s with family, friends, or colleagues, we’ll explore practical strategies for communicating your limits without feeling guilt and sticking to boundaries despite pushback. Tune in and learn how to express your limits without losing friends—or your sanity.
Check out this latest episode, “Geeta Girl Discusses You’ve Got To Express Yourself” on our website geetagirl.com, Apple Podcast/iTunes, Spotify, and everywhe...2025-04-0138 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 28: Geeta Girl Discusses Borderlines (We Feel Like We Are Going to Lose Our Minds!)In this podcast, we continue the conversation about boundaries. Where and when do we draw that line? Your first clue is whenever you feel agitated (a direct quote from Krishna!). Madonna said it best when she sang about the challenges of crossing Borderlines— “feels like I’m going to lose my mind”. When you get that feeling, it’s time to draw that strict boundary. And as she also said, “Nobody should keep on pushing your love over the borderline”. We discuss this and other situations where you should draw the line and create a boundary.
Don’t forget to subscrib...2025-02-2135 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 27: Geeta Girl Discusses Building Better BoundariesYou set them. Some people respect them. Others ignore them. A few push them. We are talking about boundaries. We know we need them but sometimes they are hard to make and even harder to maintain.
In this new season, we will focus on establishing and maintaining boundaries in all areas of our lives– family, work, friends, and with ourselves. In this podcast, we discuss what the Geeta says about why we need boundaries and how to establish them. Remember that creating boundaries means creating space for you to thrive.
Don’t forget to subscribe to, r...2025-01-1627 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 26: Geeta Girl Discusses Getting Knocked Down and Getting Up AgainDo your best and leave the rest. Live each day with a feeling of equanimity. Meditate. We know all the things we need to do but how do we start? And what if we start but one day we don’t quite do our best (and definitely don’t leave the rest). How do we push through the frustration of not getting it perfect each day? First off, stop being so hard on yourself! Change is not linear and we all take a stumble or two (or ten) backwards on our journey of growth. In this episode, we share tips...2024-07-2523 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 25: Geeta Girl Discusses the Cycle of LifeIt can be a do-over, a second chance. It’s a mystery. An incentive to do better. It can make you fearful or hopeful. It can bring a sense of peace. In this podcast, we discuss reincarnation. Does our behavior in this lifetime impact the next? Do our souls reunite with the souls of loved ones in our next life? Join us as we discuss this cycle of birth and death.
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Follow us on...2024-05-2434 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 24: Geeta Girl Discusses Getting What You DeserveI deserve it! We have all had that thought before. I worked hard therefore I deserve the promotion. I studied hard so I deserve to get into that college. Maybe you thought, I messed up, so I deserve the punishment. But what do we really deserve? In the Geeta, Krishna reminds us that we only have a right to the effort and no right to the result. No one deserves anything – not the good fortune or the bad. The only thing you have a “right” to is the effort itself and not the outcome. If you can't impact the outcom...2024-02-0511 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 23: Geeta Girl Discusses Anger, Look What You Made Me DoOh, that trickly little tempter Anger. Anger has the power to make us lose reason. Say things we don’t mean. Lash out. Even make us feel temporarily powerful. Anger is a feeling familiar to most of us and sometimes hard to avoid. In our latest podcast we share the Geeta’s guidance on how to control our anger and not allow our anger to control us. Listen to this episode and then tell Anger who’s boss.
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Check out our website at www.G...2024-01-0433 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 22: Geeta Girl Discusses Excuses Excuses Excuses!A good part of Chapter 1 in the Bhagavad Geeta is Arjun making excuses for why he doesn’t want to engage in battle with his ne’er-do-well cousins. He makes excuse after excuse for why he can’t do what he knows he has to do. Will it really do any good? They are my family- I can’t stand up to them! It will be bad for my karma if I do something! Sound familiar?
In this podcast, we break down all the excuses we make to not do our duty. We discuss how we can stop mak...2023-11-2844 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 21: Geeta Girl Discusses Practicing What You PreachWe all know the negative tendencies we need to change. Control your anger? Sure. Stop judging others? Okay, fine. Meditate more and eat healthier? Definitely. But why is it so hard to change? The Geeta shares with us ways to make our good habits stick. Check out our first podcast of Season 5, “Geeta Girl Discusses Practicing What You Preach” on our website geetagirl.com, Apple Podcast/iTunes, Spotify, and everywhere you listen to podcasts. Don’t forget to subscribe to, rate, and review the Geeta Girl Podcast!
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Follow us...2023-10-2329 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 20: Geeta Girl Discusses Dealing with You When the Problem is ThemWhat is your duty or your dharma when it comes to dealing with the complainers, the hostile, the rude, the passive aggressive, or just downright aggressive people in your life? The not so great news? You will likely always have people who frustrate and disappoint you. But the Bhagavad Geeta’s gift to you is advice about when and how to deal with them and when and how to walk away. Check out our latest and last podcast of Season 4, “Geeta Girl Discusses Dealing with You When the Problem is Them” on our website geetagirl.com, Apple Podcast/iTunes, Spotif...2022-12-2039 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 19: “Geeta Girl Discusses Finally! An Instruction Manual for Parenting”You’ve heard parents complain that kids don’t come with an instruction manual (despite shelves of books at your local bookstore that try to fill that gap). In this podcast, we break down the ultimate parenting guidebook. The Bhagavad Geeta may not break down the healthiest snacks for kids or the best video games for your teen but all the advice you need to raise kids without pulling your hair out? Yup, it’s full of that. Check out our latest podcast, “Geeta Girl Discusses Finally! An Instruction Manual for Parenting” on our website geetagirl.com, Apple Podcast/iTunes, Sp...2022-12-0746 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 18: Geeta Girl Discusses #WWKD: What would Krishna Do: A Conversation about Dharma for Teens (and Adults!)Are you teen? Do you have a teen? Were you a teen (though you may want to forget)? If so, you’re going to want to listen to this podcast. We discuss balancing competing priorities, dealing with peer pressure, managing growing responsibilities, and, of course, why does everyone’s social media life look better than mine? (Hmmm, maybe this podcast isn’t just for teens). And to no one’s surprise, the Geeta holds some answers. Sharmila and Shaila take a backseat in this podcast and invited some very special young people to lead the discussion and share questions and examp...2022-11-2239 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 17: Geeta Girl Discusses You Do You: Choosing and Doing Your Own Unique DharmaIn this podcast, we discuss defining and following through with your own unique dharma or responsibility. That means doing the hard stuff even if you don’t want to. Standing up for what is the right (despite the naysaying). And following through with your responsibilities without worrying about the outcome. So focus on taking action and not on the results- like canvassing, writing postcards, phone banking, talking to friends, voting! And if things don’t go the way you hoped, you know what you have to do. Your dharma. Again (and again).
Check out our podcast, “Geeta Girl D...2022-11-0826 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 16: “Geeta Girl Discusses Dharma Decisions Decisions Decisions!”On this next season of the Geeta Girl Podcast, we focus on Dharma. Dharma in its most simplest definition is your duty. However, it is far more complex. It is doing the right thing at the right time given the context of your situation. In the first episode of this season, we talk about the complexities of doing your dharma and help answer the question, how do I know what my dharma is and how do I know if I am doing the right thing? Here’s the good news- Krishna wrote you a cheat sheet in the Bhagavad Ge...2022-10-2529 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 15: “Geeta Girl Discusses Free Your Mind and the Rest will Follow”Is this your inner dialogue while you are meditating? “OMMM…OMMM….oooh, I think I’ll order Thai tonight…okay, back to the breathing…OMMM…OMMM…oh, and I need to remember to set a reminder to buy dog food…FOCUS!”. If this sounds familiar to you, don’t worry, you are not alone. From the unique perspective of the Geeta, we discuss why meditation is tough for many of us, and why you need to stick to it anyway. We discuss why it’s an essential tool in combatting your anxiety and perhaps, most importantly, in soaking up every bit of that Geeta...2022-06-0629 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 14: Geeta Girl Discusses Cultivating CompassionPicture the person with whom you have the most challenging relationship. Do you have their image in your mind? (No judgment if you pictured them before you even finished reading the sentence.) Now what if you were able to make that relationship less difficult? Would your life be less stressful? In this podcast, we discuss Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT). Lavina Shamdasani, a student and teacher of CCT shares how to utilize this technique to see God in everyone. CCT is based on the belief that we are all born with innate compassion and tapping into that compassion for ourselves...2022-04-1133 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 13: Geeta Girl Discusses You Gotta Have FaithDo you need to believe in God to have faith? Not necessarily, according to Krishna. Surprised? But you do need to have faith in the teachings of the Bhagavad Geeta. How do we build that faith? And what is the role of that faith in managing our anxieties? In this podcast, we outline the specific tips described in the Geeta to build our faith in God and in the teachings of the Geeta. It’s a lot simpler than you think. You just have to have a little faith.
Don’t forget to subscribe to, rate, and review...2022-03-0133 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 12: Geeta Girl Discusses Who and What is God Anyway?“What if God was one of us, Just a slob like one of us?” In her song “One of Us” Joan Osborne, wonders the same the thing so many of us do- who and what is God? In this podcast, we explore how the Bhagavad Geeta answers this question. Here’s a hint: God is not one of us, but in all of us. Check out our latest podcast “Geeta Girl Discusses Who and What is God Anyway?”
This podcast is a two-parter. In the next podcast, we will discuss how and why to have faith in God.
Che...2021-12-0629 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 11: Geeta Girl Discusses Tackling Anxiety through Detachment from our AttachmentsDid you know that Krishna invented the rave, the all night dance party? Krishna is a lover of joy and an important part of his teachings in the Bhagavad Geeta is how to experience true happiness. But how can we experience true joy if we are feeling anxious? Even before the pandemic, we have all felt moments (maybe a lot of moments) of fear and worry. In this third season, we will focus on how the Bhagavad Geeta is an epic therapy session from Krishna to Arjun (and us!) on how to deal with our panic attacks, anxiety, and f...2021-11-0328 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 10: Geeta Girl Discusses What Comes Around Goes Around…Right?”What comes around goes around, right? We all know there is that invisible karma scale. If someone does something bad, then something bad will happen to them, right? And if that someone does something bad to us, well, we have a right to help tip that scale, correct? Get our revenge. Help even things out. Are you fantasizing about it right now? Well, stop! Because even thinking about it costs us some karma points. In the last episode of this second season, we will talk about how that scale gets balanced—the good deeds and the not so good on...2021-05-2733 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 9: Geeta Girl Discusses Turning your Family Drama into Positive Family KarmaHave you ever had a family member that you couldn’t get along with? A relative who was, um, difficult? Most of us are no stranger to family conflicts. In this podcast, we invite Karen Passalacqua, a Family Constellation Facilitator, to help us discuss how we can deal with the inevitable family conflicts that come our way in a more constructive manner, creating positive karma for ourselves (and more peace in our lives).
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Do...2021-04-1952 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 8: Geeta Girl Discusses Karma with her Dad, the original Geeta Girl’s GuruIf the system of karma works, why do some people seem to be getting away with doing bad stuff? Does Hinduism allow us to ignore the difficulties of others and say “not my problem, it’s their karma”? And whose karma is to blame for COVID? We discuss these and other difficult questions in this episode. This podcast is an enlightening conversation between Sharmila and her dad, her first Geeta teacher. She asks him all the tough questions about karma we all want to know and listen as he shares the non-sugarcoated truth.
Check out our website at www...2021-03-0835 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 7: Geeta Girl Discusses Updating Our Operating System to Create Our Best Karma.It’s not just our computers that require updates, even our personal Operating System (OS) needs constant updating. How you operate determines the Karma you create. In this podcast, we learn about three modes of operation: Sattvic, Rajsic, and Tamsic. These are three ways of behaving that impact our Karma. Listen to learn how we can all update our OS to create our best Karma.
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2021-02-1538 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 5: Geeta Girl Discusses What to do When Things. Go. Wrong.How do you deal when you do your very best and things still go wrong? What do you do when you have checked every box, dotted every “i”, and things still don’t go the way you hoped. At all. Whether it’s a work issue, a parenting issue, or a relationship issue, we have all been there. How do you deal with the resulting regret, disappointment, and guilt? Listen as we share the Bhagavad Geeta’s advice on what to do when things don’t go according to plan.
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Fol...2020-10-2935 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 4: Geeta Girl Discusses Can You Believe in the Geeta When You Don’t Believe in God?Geeta Girl host Sharmila’s son is an atheist?!? In this episode, Sharmila and her son Mohit (a recent college grad) discuss his atheism and how he feels about the teachings in the Geeta. Sharmila and Mohit also talk about the power of painful experiences - dealing with mental health issues, pressure, and difficult relationships and if having hope is helpful in facing adversity (the answer may surprise you). And what does the Geeta advise us to do when faced with this difficult situation or person? Simply change our perspective and suck it up, or speak up and take actio...2020-10-2738 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 3: Geeta Girl Discusses DharmaWhen facing a dilemma, do you sometimes think, “Oh Lord, what do I do now?” Well, the Bhagavad Geeta has the answer! The main theme in the Bhagavad Geeta is Dharma. What does dharma mean? It means your duty or your responsibility, or put simply, what on earth do I do now??
The Bhagavad Geeta discusses what to do, how to do it, and why you gotta do what you gotta do, even when you feel like it is difficult or impossible.
Our guest on this episode is Ami Kantawala who joined us to discuss the d...2020-09-0939 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaEpisode 2 Geeta Girl Discusses Do your Best, Leave the RestAs a society, we are so goal oriented, right? My project at work needs to turn out a certain way, my children need to behave a certain way, my vacation needs to happen in a certain way, my life at age (fill in the blank) needs to be a certain way. But what if being goal-oriented is not the best way to achieve your goals? Join us and our special guest Dr. Shama Ahuja, an epidemiologist working on pandemic response efforts, as we discuss what the Bhagavad Geeta says about how to maximize your performance in pursuit of all...2020-08-1937 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaMini-pod: Geeta Girl’s Quick Tips for MeditationOMMMMMMM! New to meditation? We offer some basic guidance for meditation, a central concept in the Geeta. Listen to this mini podcast to learn why meditation is so important for your spiritual health and to learn a quick mediation you can do anywhere, anytime.
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2020-08-0312 minGeeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad GeetaMini-pod: Geeta Girl GlossaryNew to reading the Geeta? No problem! We explain some basic concepts that may be helpful to know as you listen to the Podcast. (Some of these concepts are also explained on our website) This mini-podcast is just 15 minutes long.
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