From Burnout To Spiritual Awakening - Padmini Pandya : 174

What if the life you built was only training for the life you’re meant to live?

Padmini Pandya joins us to trace a life shaped across continents and identities, born in the UK to East African Indian parents, rooted in Hindu tradition, and transformed by a decade in Asia, before corporate burnout cracked open an entirely different path.

A modern-day polymath, Padmini is a storyteller, strategist, and soulful creator. Through Pieces of Miss Mini, she shares stories, lessons, and beauty from her global journey, defying any single definition of identity. She holds four degrees, including an MBA from INSEAD and a Master’s in Industrial & Organizational Psychology.

In this conversation, we explore how success can quietly become an identity, why leaving a city that doesn’t fit can unlock momentum, and what it takes to rebuild when grief doesn’t have a name. Padmini speaks candidly about intuition, loss, spiritual practice grounded in logic, managing big energy, and cultivating aligned friendships—without falling into comparison.

For creators and leaders navigating burnout, reinvention, or a longing for belonging, this episode offers clarity, courage, and a reminder to tend your own garden.

Find Padmini at Pieces of Miss Mini on YouTube and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/piecesofmissmini/

https://www.youtube.com/@piecesofmissmini

Chapters

• 0:32 Meet Padmini: Global Storyteller
• 2:44 Why Share Your Story Online
• 4:18 A Life Forged Across Continents
• 6:06 Belonging And The Outlier Experience
• 9:16 Redefining Community As Vibration
• 12:19 Serendipity, Energy, And Presence
• 14:40 Language, Loss, And Emotional Nuance
• 17:38 Burnout And The Identity Unraveling
• 20:24 Place Matters: Singapore, LA, Miami
• 23:10 Titles Are Not Who You Are
• 26:02 Awakening Gifts And Ancestral Ties
• 29:00 Learning, Synchronicity, And Trust
• 31:09 Reading Energy In Work And Life
• 33:06 Colours, Symbols, And Protection
• 35:04 Envy, Boundaries, And Self-Mastery

Transcript

DanielaSm: 0:00

Hi, I'm Daniela. Let's talk about how identity, burnout, and intuition quietly guide us when words aren't enough. It is a conversation about redefining success, listening more deeply, and finding alignment when life asks us to begin again.

Speaker 1: 0:18

You know, and then something really changed at 4550, and I just really grew into this different woman. I knew that it wasn't an accident. I knew that it couldn't have just been random for no reason. I'm a lot more present with people.

DanielaSm: 0:32

My guest is Pandimi Pandya. She's a global storyteller and strategist whose life across continents reshapes how she understands identity, success, and intuition. She is the creator of the podcast Pieces of Miss Mini, where she shares stories and reflections from her richly layered global journey. Let's enjoy her story. Welcome, Pan Mini, to the show. A fellow podcaster. What is the name of your show?

Speaker 1: 0:58

Well, it's my own YouTube channel. It's called Pieces of Miss Mini, where I share the lessons of my life one memory at a time.

DanielaSm: 1:06

Yes, and and I've seen it, and it's really, really cool. And we will put all in the show notes. Why do you want to share your story?

Padmini Pandya: 1:12

Well, because everyone wouldn't get off my back about writing. Well, I have started writing finally. I am not a writer naturally. I like digital media. I think it is actually extremely rich. I think the stories that you can tell on video from first person are so much stronger. You can read them as well. It's a different experience. I wouldn't say one's better than the other, but it's like we we are in the age of Aquarius and it is a digital age, and I am an Aquarian. I I've just I've always thought that the evolution of digital media and just the different apps that are evolved have evolved, and you know, the advent of TikTok has certainly changed things, and also like the strength of YouTube still, and you know, the reach of Instagram, like these are still very interesting platforms that have a lot of room for even more creativity. I think they still keep evolving.

DanielaSm: 2:04

Yes. Just did I interview a lady who she said she loved podcasting versus being an interview on TV or radio because the questions are different. We ask more questions like you and I are talking here versus the the typical that they ask on TV and on the radio. So I never heard of that before. So I was like, oh, that's so cool because it's true. Yeah, we do ask questions as the conversation happens. I appreciate that. The podcasting is really fun. Yes.

Speaker 1: 2:30

Yeah. You just get much longer. TV is just inherently sound bites, unless it's a long format interview.

DanielaSm: 2:36

Yes, that's true. I know that you have been living in many countries, so you're in a way, you're a mix of cultures where you have lived. When does your story start?

Speaker 1: 2:47

The YouTube channel that started a year ago, but I think that was really the culmination of I'm 45, and it was really, you know, the first 44 years of my life. I feel like I have almost just like not bifurcated, I wouldn't say that, but I'd say like the first 44 years of my life were really the training ground and where I was forged in the fire, you know, and then something really changed at 4550, and I just really grew into this different woman. And I could feel like the next chapter, the next half of my life was going to be very different than the first. But the first half of my life was complicated, very difficult, peculiar, bizarre, somewhat traumatic, uh adventurous as well, a little bit glamorous. I feel, you know, in 44 years, I already lived like three lifetimes, like three and you know, three big lifetimes, probably five or seven by the average individual. I didn't know what to do with it. I knew that it wasn't an accident. I knew that it couldn't have just been random for no reason because everybody else's life that I had seen had been, while there had been a few dips and turns here and there, by and large, everyone else was living like pretty predictable lives. And even, you know, my background, I was born in the UK. I'm originally British. My family on both sides is three generations from East Africa. My father's family is from Kenya, my mother's family is from Uganda. She became a refugee during Idi Amin and was airlifted out by when the last British airlifts out, you know, when uh the deadline was coming up. My father's family moved to the UK also because of political instability in East Africa, you know, and then we moved to the States in the 80s, and my parents were very different types of people. It was just, you know, I could go on and on. I don't want to tell the like entire story of my 44 years, but yes, I have I've lived in many countries. I worked in Asia for just shy of a decade. I lived in Bangkok in Singapore. I saw a lot of the world. I was married, divorced, my ex-husband has passed away. There were a lot of lessons in there. There was a lot of growth. There was there was a good amount of heartbreak. There was also a good amount of my heart getting a lot bigger as well.

DanielaSm: 4:54

I I liked it when you say that in the 40 and the 60s, you were another woman. I remember when I was working for a nonprofit organization, I was raising funds and doing silent actions. And I met a lot of women. I was for 40s, I was then, and there were a lot of 50-year women, and they were all like coming out of their shelf and saying how wonderful this is happening. And I was admiring that. And I said, Well, I don't want to wait 10 years to get there. So I was like, I wanna now, and what is it that I have to do? Yeah, and so it was really super interesting to see that power 10 years before, and so now I think that it's happening earlier. Yeah, I wouldn't say that for me I have changed, like I'm a different person. I I feel like I have grown slowly and nothing dramatic, but I know that there is you're lucky.

Speaker 1: 5:42

Like county, you're lucky start.

DanielaSm: 5:44

I just feel like there is more out there. That's the only thing that I feel like there is more. There's so much more. But I just so I just think I haven't even touched the surface yet. And then I I wanted to ask you that the fact that you parents from different places, and then that you moved to different places. Um, how is the sense of belonging? Because I feel like me also being mixed and leaving different countries, it makes us uh enrich and maybe more compassionate and more understanding of different cultures. But in a way, we I feel like I don't belong necessarily. So, how how do you feel?

Speaker 1: 6:14

It's been both. It's been exactly that. You know, in one respect, I am, and I actually I just released a video about uh jewelry that I've picked up on my travels. And at the end of it, I reflected on in a way how easy it's been for me to travel. And actually, even more than that, the groups that I've been able to move in and out of. Like I have a very, very I the people I have known have been from every, you know, echelon of society, of education, of race, religion, everything. I have gotten to know and befriended people from around the world, and I have moved in and out of a lot of different groups pretty seamlessly and really been accepted, even when I'm the only person who is not of the same race. I've somehow found people. So I think in that respect, it has made it easier for me to move in and out of groups because basically everyone's been pretty cool with me, and I've been pretty cool with everyone, I'd like to think. But at the same time, there is no sense of community. There is no sense of belonging, there is no sense of like I am from here, I am part of, you know, people can identify sort of pseudo-tribes and communities based on where they grow up, their race, their religion, their schools, their ethnicities, their this, that everyone basically fits into a segment and demographic of society. You know, it's like in digital media, it's sort of like your user journeys and your personas. It's like most people are. I like those things are not stereotypes, don't come out of nowhere. Stereotypes do come out of like a certain amount of you know, commonalities by the numbers. And, you know, and I've always been an outlier. And and that is a very, very singular experience. And I think for better or for worse, my mind has always been very, very active. I think I've always been a fairly introspective, inquisitive kind of intellectual person who sort of wants to understand people and understand their behaviors and their psychology. Even though I'm interacting with them to a certain extent, I am also on the outside as well in a lot of respects. I kind of feel like I'm a participant, but I'm almost like a guest participant, but like I'm more of an observer. That has informed me a lot also in, you know, my relationships, my friendships, letting people into my life, understanding when it's time to release people from your life, understanding when there are different chapters and not everyone can come with you, and that a lot of people are for a reason or a season. Very, very few people are for a lifetime. And those who are also for a lifetime don't necessarily have to be from your past. I am making amazing new friends now. I would say a couple of them are probably like I put my money on them that you know, in 20 years or so we'll still be friends. The what it means for a lifetime does not necessarily mean people you went to grade school with or know from college. Like the people who are gonna continue with you on your lifetime, you might meet them tomorrow.

DanielaSm: 9:10

Yes. Well, I noticed that I have friends that have met friends everywhere. We went traveling for six months last year, and I went to see a few of them. Some some of them that I actually saw when I was 13 didn't even care too much about that person. And now we saw him, and I was like, oh my god, I got a new friend. And another one that I haven't seen for nearly 25 years, and she treated me with so much love. I feel I feel that it's sad that I was surprised because that means that I don't get that enough. But in general, like I don't see that people are that generous. But then when you talk about the sense of community, is it solvable?

Speaker 1: 9:46

I think the concept of community is changing. Okay. I don't think it's demographic anymore. I think it is far more vibrational. I think it's frequency, I think it's enlightenment, I think it's maturity, I think it's awareness. Like the people I'm meeting now, they by no means reflect me on the outside. But intellectually, we are on the same page and we help each other get there. There are a lot of women in particular who I've met who we're teaching each other a lot. And sometimes, yeah, I'm I'm probably the more spiritually inclined and sort of like tapped in. I'm sort of like everybody's, you know, like spiritual, like witchy friend who like tells them what to do during a lunar eclipse. Well, like, you know, like everybody's got like different elements and attributes that make them like really interesting. And I'm learning a lot from these women too. So I do have like a a group of Indian friends, and that is a whole different relationship and experience because like is, and that's not to say like they're a group, but I do have probably five, six of my friends are Indian, not that any of them are anywhere to be seen locally, but you know, that because it's such a particular culture, and you know, I'm Hindu and that's a particular religion, you just grow up, that is a very, very different experience than growing up waspy American. I I think there are elements of that, particularly when it comes to like culture to family and even how we've been like programmed that like they can identify with.

DanielaSm: 11:12

Yes, it is interesting what you said about the community because that's kind of like what I'm looking, and it's it's it's true there's no people. You when you mentioned that is energy and vibration, it is true that is is I'm I'm glad that you mentioned that because I never thought about it. And the other way that I think is that there is a lot of people like us because me people now are mixing even more than in the past. There's a lot of third cultural kids, I think that's what we call mixed race kids.

Speaker 1: 11:37

I mean, I'm not even mixed race, and even when I went to India, like they didn't know what I was, uh, you know, and they look at my name, which is like very Indian and very Hindu, but they were still like, Are you are you half something? Are you mixed? And I I even had long hair then. I looked, you know, I could have looked more traditionally Indian than I perhaps do now, but they never knew what I was. I think when I'm in the Middle East, they'll probably think I'm more local than you know, or they're not sure. Everyone thinks I'm mixed, yeah, yeah, yeah. But nobody's sure what I am.

DanielaSm: 12:06

But yeah, I think it's not necessarily like having parents from different countries, but also the fact that you live in different countries that makes you a different person too. So that's interesting. And so how are you meeting all these women?

Speaker 1: 12:18

Different activities. Some of it I really got into golf. That has been really interesting. And so I've met women through there, and then I've met women through them, and you know, different like professional events, or you know, a charity that I'm involved with, or someone says, come to this event, that event, or you know, you end up you join friends at a bar and you meet, you know, a cool couple, and so a lot of it has been quite serendipitous. It hasn't really been all that planned, but I can just tell even as my vibration has gotten different. I've always gotten like people have always been nice to me generally and you know, done me favors when they can, or but like I'm getting a lot of free stuff right now. People are just sending over drinks, they won't even tell me, like, I don't even get a number. They're like too shy to really even talk. But like I'll be at, you know, lunch with a girlfriend and someone will ask if they can buy us around, or they'll just like pick up our tab, or you know, even if I'm getting my car done or something, they'll take you know a ton of money. Like, I've never been treated badly, but like the amount of love I'm receiving from people and just like free stuff or like discount, you know, or just like everybody just being like really, really helpful and really kind.

DanielaSm: 13:28

What have changed, you think?

Speaker 1: 13:29

I've changed. I think my vibe, my vibration is definitely higher. I mean, like, psychic abilities are definitely uh, you know, getting stronger by the day.

DanielaSm: 13:37

Were you you always like these?

Speaker 1: 13:39

I mean, people have always like been pretty nice, but I think I'm a lot more present with people. And I don't know, feel like people are feeling my energy is also getting bigger. Like, I I am learning how to manage my energy because sometimes I feel like my energy can almost be like disruptive. Like I have gone into like trainings or settings or events, or there could be like 50, 100, sometimes even 400 people there, and like my energy has like dominated that room. And it's shocked me. I mean, I've even some once I was like with my mom and we were at an event, it was a fundraiser, and even she noticed and she was like, you know, she's seen the change. She and you know, I was out of training like a week ago, and like I had to like reel my energy back in. And I didn't even mean it, but it was like it's I'm learning how to manage it right now because it is disruptive. And not in a bad way either. Like, I'm meeting great people. People are like, you know, they want to meet me, and like I want to meet them, so we're cool. It's big.

DanielaSm: 14:40

So you'd be married, divorce, and widow.

Speaker 1: 14:43

Well, I wasn't widowed, we were already divorced, so technically by the English language, and that was some, you know, that was kind of part of like what I struggled with. That's the the you know, the English language, it is it is good for it's good for war, it's good for you know, business, like it's good, it's a transactional language, it's a good you know, language for law, it's not a good language for emotions, it's not a good language for nuance, it's not a good language for like that, like for empathy and sympathy. You'd have to use too many words that like if you were speaking like Urdu or Farsi or even maybe Italian or Hindi or whatever, like there's yeah, Arabic, there's so many other languages that are so much more nuanced emotionally and even situationally, you know, like even among you know, you who have different, like I'm Ghadrathi, and but like all Indians, like depending on like everybody as they relate to your parents have different names. Not everybody is an aunt. Your father's side is different from your mother's side, if they're older, if they're younger, who was first, who's the eld, like everybody has a different name because it very specifically denotes relationships, but it's like that. So, anyway, my point was with the there, you know, if so if you're married to somebody and they die, you are a widow. But there's nothing in the English language that actually explains the nuance of an ex-spouse dying. You know, you are the ex-wife and ex-husband, fine, fair enough. We have that, but then those other kind of emotional nuances, and and that was a lot of the experience and why, you know, I think I was met with so much just like cruelty or indifference or uh almost surprise from people because they think that like if you are no longer together, and granted it had been a while, but it was like I didn't have any animosity towards him, like I only had love and respect for him, and so that you know it was a very, very painful experience, his death, and it was like I didn't know why everybody else was so surprised that it some people weren't surprised, some people understood it, some people really didn't understand it, and they were surprised. And I was like, like, have you, you know, well, why would you be surprised? And I think it's because you know, the our language is not uh it is not good with emotions, it's not good with love, it's not good with uh it's not good with complicated things at all.

DanielaSm: 17:11

Well what one thing is is that the person is there, but not with you, and the other one is that he's no longer here at all. So of course there are different feelings and emotions. And if you if you, as you said, you have respect for him.

Speaker 1: 17:24

Yeah. And even sort of the role that you play, it's really weird.

DanielaSm: 17:28

Uh interesting. But it seems that you kind of flourish after all this.

Speaker 1: 17:32

Yeah, I did. I know. So my surprise.

DanielaSm: 17:35

I don't know if you did work on yourself to grow this way.

Speaker 1: 17:39

It's it's been like a five-year journey.

DanielaSm: 17:41

So that's wonderful.

Speaker 1: 17:42

And it started, it really started when I burned out from my corporate career in Singapore. I've been in Singapore for about seven years. My career was doing really well, and I really just sort of like hit a wall. I physically I physically hit a wall. I psychologically hit a wall. I kind of just like lost the plot as well. And that was in 2019, 2020. That had a lot more to do with like my ego and my identity and who I was professionally, and actually, the more successful you become, really substitute their career for an identity. Their business card really is what defines them in a lot of ways. And like those lines get very, very blurred, and you realize you're like, you're just playing dress up. You know, if you're an employee and got a title, you've got a job, you're helping make sales in some capacity or like moving stuff along, or you know, your support to another team, whatever. But like, that's not who you are. It's a job, and that probably reflects a lot of just basically the socioeconomics you were born into, the education you had access to, and the career trajectory, which was largely accessible. I'm an organizational psychologist and corporate strategist, like professionally. Like, if I had gone to law school, I'd be a lawyer. If I'd gone to med school, I'd be a doctor. Like, these are not identities. It's just what you ended up doing with your time. Like, no big deal. Like, that's not who you are. So I think the first couple years were that. The second couple years, you know, then I moved to LA. Coming back to the States was really hard. LA was is an atrocious city, in my opinion. Like, I know there are some great people there, but like that city needs to be saged.

DanielaSm: 19:19

Well, but coming from Singapore that I think has a kind of gene energy.

Speaker 1: 19:24

It has an artificial energy. I wouldn't I wouldn't be that complimentary. They're there the energy in Singapore is very deceptive. Uh there's almost like a lot of electromagnetic interference in Singapore. I think it's not particularly grounded or rooted. It is very artificial. It it is very much uh kind of like corporate trumanship.

DanielaSm: 19:44

But it's not chaotic.

Speaker 1: 19:46

No, no, no, it's not chaotic. One of my favorite cities is Hong Kong. That's a chaotic city. Like, I love Vietnam. Like Vietnam's a chaotic country. Like the the chaos, in and of itself, I don't think like defines it.

DanielaSm: 19:57

And what about Miami?

Speaker 1: 19:59

Yeah, yeah, I love. This is my second round with South Florida. I lived in Miami from 2003 to 2011. The energy in Miami, particularly over the past couple years, is entirely different. Even the people I'm meeting now in Miami, you know, like a girlfriend would say, like, organize a dinner and I'll go, and there'll be like six amazing women who, like, none of whom were here five, 10 years ago. And now it's like just this table of powerhouses, not just professionally, though, spiritually, psychically. Like I am super impressed with the people I'm meeting now and just like the amount of like energy and inertia and how high it's vibrating.

DanielaSm: 20:40

Like I lived there in 1990.

Speaker 1: 20:42

Oh, a long time ago.

DanielaSm: 20:43

Yes, I could not tell you that the same experience at all.

Speaker 1: 20:47

Yeah, yeah. No, not the 90s.

DanielaSm: 20:49

I I wanted to go back to what you said. You realize that your job doesn't define you. And and I had to lose my job to also get into that mindset that I'm like, oh, I the job doesn't define me. It's true, but nothing defines. I'm not a wife, I'm not a daughter, I'm not a mother. I'm you know, I am who I am inside. All these things can disappear. Not have a husband, not have a kid, and and then I'm still me. That was really insightful. Next job that I got, I was like never using my title.

Speaker 1: 21:15

I don't think, you know, when it comes to business, it'd be weird if socially you were introducing yourself that way. But professionally, I think that's the point, is that everyone needs to do it?

DanielaSm: 21:24

No, I I to me no, because I people throw it like, oh, I am the manager, I'm the supervisor, I'm this the director, you know, and people say it with like I kind of like saying like I'm better than you. And I don't wanted to do that. And I when I say I work with you, or you know, when they say we work in this department, and I said, and I work in that department, and you will figure it out later, you know. And so yeah, that's what I wanted to do. Well, but tell me more, so you realize that, and then what happened? You were burned out, and then I mean I was burned out, you know.

Speaker 1: 21:52

LA was a whole other thing. So the LA was about two and a half years, and you know, and that was when my ex-husband passed away. I realized LA was not my cup of tea. I had bitten off far more than I could chew with a startup that I was not as prepared to do as I had hoped. And and there was also just a lot of bad things. Nothing was working there, and that is a really good sign that like you need to get you, like, there's a reason. Because as soon as I got back to Florida, literally within the first week, I met a man. And so, you know, it and I, you know, fell in love and had this whirlwind romance with an Italian for a year, and you know, that like that, you know, literally within less than a week I met him. And since then, like basically it has been getting better. It's you know, and I've spent a lot of time by myself. I think, you know, it's particularly the past year, I would say, you know, has actually, as social as I am right now, it has been building. And I would say from last summer into this spring, I was still a lot more within myself and within my own energy. And I really spent a year, my psychic skills were getting a lot stronger. You know, even those ascensions, like, you know, your body's going through a lot. My dreams have been prophetic for a very long time. I have been able to hear and see things, events have happened. It has really been a year of me honing those skills or those skills honing me, I should say. Like a lot of it, you know, hasn't been optional. It just happened to me, and I've been the one that has to catch up. Learning a lot, I s uh this year has been an enormous year of growth in my education, particularly spiritually, building a much, much stronger relationship with God or the gods, you know, building a strong relationship with my ancestors, even really dealing with uh some things that I needed to close, which I eventually did.

DanielaSm: 23:43

When you were in in Los Angeles, similar to when I was in Miami. So for perhaps it has the energy that it will match the people, but depending on the level where they are.

Speaker 1: 23:52

Well, in Miami now has had such an enormous influx of people from all over the country and all over the world that the entire makeup of Miami and South Florida has shifted dramatically. So while there are people who have been here historically, there's an enormous uh there's been enormous migration here. So like the entire composition of South Florida has changed dramatically. I am happily impressed with a lot of the people I've been meeting.

DanielaSm: 24:18

That's wonderful. That's wonderful. You were always spiritual. How how did this happen? How have you been learning that you have all this power?

Speaker 1: 24:26

I think I was always way more tapped in. Uh, you know, to a certain extent, I've known that because I've my my intuition has never been wrong. The only thing that's been wrong is whether or not I've listened to, you know, it's never actually been wrong. You don't know how other people's minds work, you don't know how other people's brains work. Yeah, I don't even want to say it was gradual. I think there was like a level that was pretty strong. I was largely raised by my grandmother, particularly when I was young, where Hindu and also Brahmin, my grandparents, like particularly my grandmother, was a thoroughbred Brahmin woman, and she came from a long line of very deeply spiritual tapped-in people. And I think both my parents are also have also been people of faith. There's not been a rejection of religion or God in my family. I can't really think of an example. I think depending on your gifts and how plugged in you are and how much you know or understand or how much you can hear or trust yourself, that varies from person to person. I grew up with it very intermixed, so it wasn't there wasn't really, particularly when you're Indian and you're Hindu or a lot of different, even Muslim, like you can't really take away your family from the religion. You know, the culture and the religion are very much inherently interconnected and intertwined. My grandmother did not mess around. Like she was a woman of God. There was probably more she taught me than I will ever realize, but it's like I've been talking to her for the past like year, so it's fine. Like we're we're still in touch. Like it's okay. Like she's she's been with me. So but she passed. Yeah, about 10 years ago.

DanielaSm: 26:00

But but this was not 10 years ago that you would still connect it. It certainly has happened in the last year, as you said.

Speaker 1: 26:06

Yeah, these were just like awakenings, you know, some of which can happen with a plant medicine journey, some of which can happen with heartbreak, some of which can happen with failure, some of which can happen with answering the karma, some of which can happen watching other people answer to theirs. You know, so there were like multiple awakenings, but also my dreams became a lot stronger. My into my clair cognizance, my clairsentient, like my clair audience, like all of that became stronger as well and continues to get stronger. So now I feel like the hardest parts are behind me, and now I learning how to put these skills to use.

DanielaSm: 26:44

And what are you doing? Are you you're taking like reading, uh taking courses, mm, getting connected with people that are you're similar?

Speaker 1: 26:52

Yeah, it's a couple things. Like, and not all if it's like religious per se. It doesn't all have to be Hindu. Like it could be reading, it could be like taking a self-development course, it could be taking you know religious course online. And you know, Hinduism is very complicated. I'm not gonna claim to be an expert by any means. Like, there's a lot of education that even I need. And so learning more about that, you know, you pay attention to a lot of synchronicities happen. Like a lot of like people, random strangers will just like say the most interesting things at the most interesting times that if you're paying attention, you'll catch, or even you know, things I'll think of something, and then literally it'll just it'll appear.

DanielaSm: 27:34

Yeah, it happens to me like you know, I didn't think that the our conversation was gonna go this way.

Speaker 1: 27:39

Neither did I.

DanielaSm: 27:40

But it is fascinating because lately I've been people coming to the podcast that are quite spiritual, and I've been listening to things, but I always felt like I have this that I need to develop, and I always had this power of like meeting people and kind of reading the person. A lot has happened to me that I think of this person and this person calls or or certainly shows up.

Speaker 1: 28:02

People will tell me that too. I'll show up somewhere and they'll be like, I was just thinking a few. And I'm like, I'm not surprised. Like, I that doesn't surprise me at all. I'm like, yeah, because that happens to me too. I do that with people.

DanielaSm: 28:15

But because I'm most surrounded by people that will be like, Well, that's just a constant, oh, that's not a big deal. Then you you can really talk about it. Then I think that if you could talk about more, then then maybe more things will happen.

Speaker 1: 28:26

But you've just got to find your right people. A lot of everybody's on completely different stages of evolution and awakening. These are some of the early tranches. So like you have to find your people. And just because other people don't believe you or aren't tuned in and they can't feel it and they can't see it, so they think you're wrong. The more I'm meeting people now, like nobody's like doubting me. I read energy, I probably read minds, but like, you know, and then like it's the other Claire's. I have been able to say, like, go into negotiations with people, and I'm like, he's lying, he's not telling the truth. That person's cool, like, you know, and so I've been that back ear to you know, exert certain executives, and they've you know, they've gotten to know me, so they've trusted me. Most people who get to know me know, like, I've got their best interests at heart.

DanielaSm: 29:16

Like when I met you, you were like telling me about oh, you have to do video and stuff, and you said it in a way that it was like very open, very caring. So you you like to give your opinion, but it was it was it was soft, it was nice.

Speaker 1: 29:30

And it has nothing to do with me. Like when I give people advice, I'm like, I I don't have any skin in the game. Like, do it, don't do it. Like, this doesn't affect me.

DanielaSm: 29:38

I know, I know. And and uh so that's why I was like super excited today. I'm like, oh, it's you know, it's like it's like the boss is telling me.

Speaker 1: 29:45

I'm glad I work. I know, I know you I'm glad we look like Christmas.

DanielaSm: 29:49

No, no, yours is not a red, it's like a salmon. My favorite color.

Speaker 1: 29:54

My favorite color is purple. I think purple does not get the respect it deserves. I think purple is fascinating.

DanielaSm: 30:00

Yes, yes. I love purple too, actually. Uh well, I always, when I was little, I wanted to have a purple bike. It's very royal, right? And it's just very grounded as well.

Speaker 1: 30:09

And it's your crown chakra as well. It's the highest frequency in that respect, but it's such an interesting blend of colors and hues, and you know, even you can look up there, like it can go in so many different directions. It just like it vibrates at a very different level. Color, I like colorful things.

DanielaSm: 30:25

I think color is the language of love, so I love colors.

Speaker 1: 30:29

And music. I like I'm obsessed with music.

DanielaSm: 30:31

All right. Um, I have more questions about you have the evil eye in several places in your house. That's not an Indian thing, is it?

Speaker 1: 30:39

It it's uh it's throughout a lot of different predates even Egyptian. People identify it as Egyptian, but I'm pretty sure it probably predates that too. It's probably Sumerian or I mean, yeah, throughout the Middle East, like everywhere you but I'm saying like its origins, you can see it in a lot of different civilizations, but it is uh yeah, most closely associated with Egyptian, and then of course, like the Middle East and Arabic countries. The concept of evil eye is you know, people's jealousy, their ill wishes upon you, their envy. Yes, envy.

DanielaSm: 31:12

Once I saw the evil eye, I was like, envy, that's like a big one. Definitely love it.

Speaker 1: 31:18

It does. There are there are lots of different spiritual rituals, but like yeah, but I feel envy is a really low energy emotion, and they will eat you up. I think what people don't realize is that jealousy and envy will make you bitter. You you know, it's that old saying of like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. That's what jealousy and envy is. Like, this is your life is a singular game, and it's not even a game, it is a singular experience, a singular race, a single uh it is just singular. Like what other people are doing, what they have, what they don't have, how you feel about your if you need to look at other people to decide what your own self-esteem is, you should be looking in the mirror a little harder.

DanielaSm: 32:03

I do love to to learn. And so I feel like when you are with people that are like ahead of you, let's say, in any topic, in any topics, I I want to know more. And I to me, I I just I would like to surrender myself on that kind of level of people rather than people that I could be feel more powerful or better or prettier or richer.

Speaker 1: 32:23

Yeah, it's a lonely place. Oh, what it is, is it's just a sign of insecurity. And it's just you overcompensating, trying to pretend that if I keep these people around or if I hang out with these people, then I feel better about myself. That means you don't feel that good about yourself. I am a staunch advocate of staying in your lane, of minding your business, of tending to your own garden, of running your own race.

DanielaSm: 32:46

I'm listening to you and I'm like, oh, I and I don't have envy. I just find it interesting, and I want to learn more, and I want to hang around with you like and and learn with your group. It's just curiosity as well, and and because I feel like, oh, that would be amazing. But Nini, tell me more about what you're doing now. Somebody was telling you to write, and you decided, well, I'm gonna have a podcast and YouTube channel.

Speaker 1: 33:08

I have started writing now. A lot of work is done behind the scenes. It is not done in stuff that you can produce and show people. All the work that happens does not happen for an audience. And I think that is, you know, I am still doing a lot of work on myself. I am strategizing about, you know, where I would like to take things, whether it's, you know, other media projects which are being considered and in development, and you know, really coming in on my own, honing in on my own message and skill set and also seeing investigating different avenues. I can take that, whether, you know, it is in media, it is in consulting, it is, you know, in more spiritual work and healing or as an advisor to certain people. I think there are a lot of people I could help who might find my skill set useful. And also really honing in on my own message, like if I can raise the vibration of a number of people who will then raise the vibration, who will then raise the vibration, well then, you know, that wave was worth making.

DanielaSm: 34:06

Wonderful, wonderful. And is this what you think we said at the beginning that I know there is much more? I'm not clear what much more is for me. Uh, but for you, is this what you think it is? Like continue and being more spiritual helper and healer and stuff?

Speaker 1: 34:22

I think it's gonna keep evolving. I I think there will be surprises in store for me. You cannot predict the unpredictable, you can't predict surprises. I'm not trying to do that. What I'm trying to make sure is that I am as solid and as grounded and well-tuned, honed in, you know, growing and you know, not not just sitting there waiting for lightning to strike, like certainly working towards goals and you put in the work every day. It doesn't have to be exhaustive, it doesn't have to be a marathon, but like those things stack up and um you know, and also like still making sure I meet a lot of people, I put myself in places where things will shake out. And yeah, so I am I am expecting the unexpected, but I know that I'm going to be solid enough and grounded enough and and happy enough and just like keeping my vibration as high as possible that like I will be able to surf whatever is coming my way. I hope I do it from a place of truth and honesty and purpose.

DanielaSm: 35:28

Beautiful. Thank you so much for this beautiful moment in and discussion. I really enjoy meeting you more, and I appreciate that you were you were here. Uh, we will put uh on the show notes everything about your podcast and all the things and whatever you're gonna write, when you when you have it finished, you have to come back.

Speaker 1: 35:47

Oh, okay. I mean, I do do like some little stuff. I do on Instagram, I do some like digital art stuff there. And I combine it with like, you know, sometimes with graphics, sometimes with music. You know, it's my own sort of version of poetry. You know, you can also find me on pieces of Miss Mini on my Instagram. See a couple of my thoughts there too.

DanielaSm: 36:05

All right. Well, thank you so much, Padmini. Thank you. Badmini's story reminds us that healing isn't about fixing yourself, but about listening to the body, to our intuition, and to the deeper layers of who we are. It is about choosing boundaries, words, and path and support our energy and growth. If something in this conversation stay with you, leave a comment or share it with someone who might need that reminder. Intuition can be redefined, identity can evolve, and healing is possible. Join me next time for another story conversation. Thank you for listening. Hasta pronto.