Confessions of a Desi Drama Queen
SEASON 2 IS HERE LADIES!!!
Here. we. GO. It's time to move conversations with the girlies from our group chats to a place we can all relate. Join me for interviews from your favorite ladies and some hilariously relatable desi girl talk from marriage to careers to friendships to bollywood to fashion! Nothing is off the table, we're confessing it ALL.
Episodes
21 episodes
EP 21 | Samreen Arshad: Inspiration Lies in the Journey PT 2
Continuing the conversation with Samreen from last week, we're diving into her unique path to success with SamreensVanity. One thing we know for sure is Samreen is willing to roll up her sleeves and never takes 'NO' for answer. Her secret sauce...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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39:06
EP 20 | Samreen Arshad: Inspiration Lies in the Journey PT 1
Get ready for the baddest businesswoman on the block to share her journey to a multi-million dollar beauty company against all odds AND being a wife and mother. Samreen came to the states to attend college in hopes of pursuing a career and toda...
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42:46
EP 19 | Muslim Met Gala Season Approaches
It's a solo dolo episode this week. The first solo episode of season 2 *YEAH BABY* (read in Austin Powers voice only, please). This week is a true catch up SZN. It's been a while since we've talked updates!! We catch up one on one about where I...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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33:53
EP 18 | Sahrish Qureshi: Single State of Mind PT 2
Continuing our conversation with Sahrish from last week, we're diving into what happens AFTER the divorce? Is navigating single life as a woman in her early 30s easy or harder than when you were in your early 20s? How do your expectations chang...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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54:16
EP 17 | Sahrish Qureshi: Single State of Mind PT 1
IT'S OFFICIALLY SPRING 2024 and we're kicking off this spring with a friend who is the QUEEN of turning lemons into lemonade. Sahrish is the girliepop of girliepops and we've been in each other's lives for over a decade as we've taken on new ro...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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51:06
EP 16 | Tea Time with The Zubair Show PT 2
Ramadan Mubarak girlies! <3 Continuing our conversation with Zubair from last week as we discuss where his career ended up taking him in and outside healthcare, how he deals with stepping outside of cultural norms in fashion and how society ...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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43:16
EP 15 | Tea Time with The Zubair Show PT 1
GEEERD MORNING on this lovely Tuesday with none other than Sana and THEEE Zubair Show! Buckle in for a conversation with piping hot tea as we talk to our FIRST interview with a MAN. On this week's part 1 of 2 series, AKA Tea Time with The Z...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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49:00
EP 14 | 2 am Convos in the Girls' Bathroom
This week we have on an EXTREMELY special guest and the first person in my family to join us on the pod, AMNA SALEEMI!!! Someone roll out the red carpet because we're talking alllll the things you want to hear from Drake's released video of an ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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55:07
EP 13 | Amy Devan: The Art of Pivoting
We're back and better than ever with our first episode of season 2!!! Starting off strong with our interview with Amy Devan, a true NYC boss woman who shares her stories and secrets with us in this week's episode. We talk about her ACCIDENTAL m...
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50:32
EP 12 | Hustle Culture to Soft Girl Era
Like I say in the beginning, this is a shoot the shit type of episode BUT we do talk about oldest daughter syndrome and how it quickly sets you up to fall into 'hustle culture' and the toll that can take long term (trust me)! I give you all som...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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37:30
EP 11 | Abundance Mindset, Toxicity of Comparison Culture, and Irrational Fears
This week's topics are twist(ers) and turns starting with a little Eid update, story time about a childhood fear come to life, and conversations about why desi women grew up with a scarcity mindset in a toxic culture of comparison.
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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45:54
EP 10 | Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
After a few weeks apart, we're BACK BABY! Buckle up for an episode with twists and turns you wouldn't expect. We do a recap on how life has been in this desi drama queen's life followed by a deep dive of some self-reflection that's taken place ...
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Episode 10
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1:01:32
EP 9 | Dr. Mashal Khan: The Desi Girl's Guide to Adulting Pt. II
Continuing where we left off last week, Mashal and Sana get into the harder conversations around marriage, in laws, family, siblings, etc. Listen for some really tangible ways to help you in so many scenarios from arguments with the husband to ...
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Episode 9
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1:36:36
EP 8 | Dr Mashal Khan: The Desi Girl’s Guide to Adulting Pt. I
On this week's episode, I get to interview Dr. Mashal Khan! Enjoy the first of a two part series with Mashal as she talks about all the curveballs she's navigated as a badass, each time turning lemons into lemonade. Whether it be personal or pr...
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Episode 8
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1:25:57
EP 7 | Mina Hasan: Huda Beauty Drama and Navigating Desi Toxicity
Mina Hasan joins Confessions of a Desi Drama Queen as the FIRST ever featured guest of the podcast to give us the inside scoop on her very public and viral drama with beauty brand owner and powerhouse, Huda Kattan of Huda Beauty. Mina also talk...
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Episode 7
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1:13:12
EP 6 | It's Raining EIDI
We're taking a little trip down memory lane today. Sana takes you through the nostalgia of a Chicago chaand raat. It's the era of Imran Khan, over-bronzed mac foundation, and pencil thin brows roaming Devon at 2 am the night before Eid and the ...
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Episode 6
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42:18
EP 5 | Muslim Met Gala
Part 2 of the Ramadan Series 2023! This week we take a look at the culture of Eid on social medial and the absolute CHOKEHOLD that Pakistani designers have on our life every Eid. Diving into some topics from last week, we discuss responses from...
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Episode 5
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41:32
EP 4 | Nope. Not Even Water.
Ramadan Mubarak!!! We promise this is not the Ramadan episode you'd expect. This week we're answering your questions and sharing Ramadan stories LIKE AN OPEN BOOK. We talk about periods and how annoyingggg it is to have to pretend to fast so th...
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Episode 4
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39:52
EP 3 | Gossip Girl(s) in Paris
Welcome back to reality! After a couple weeks of travel (including a girls trip to Paris), we're back with another episode of CDDQ! We're diving into the DRAMA around a girls trip to Paris without husbands, the shock of a Parisian cabaret show,...
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Episode 3
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40:16
EP 2 | Age Old Debate: Gamla or Vase?
In this week's episode we skip, hop, and jump to all things BOLLYWOOD and the impact it had on our childhoods and connection to home but also some of the questionable story lines we romanticized. Sana also discusses her controversial thoughts o...
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Episode 2
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45:28