Mango Talks : Recent Episodes
Alena Alias and Sushmitha Peddireddy
Welcome to Mango Talks where we talk about everything from friendships, heartbreaks to colorism and toxic aunties we're your hosts Alena Alias and Sushimitha Peddireddy check out our rants below!
Inspired by the women in our life we wanted to discuss the struggles that many brown women face within the community; of always putting everyone else first to keep the peace.
Your relationship with your parents is probably one of the most important and simultaneously complicated dynamics to navigate. Especially as POC! In this episode we discuss our experiences, lessons and advice for how we’ve dealt with our own relationships with our parents!
It’s about to be fall again which usually means schools starting just around the corner. Whether it’s high-school or college we have all felt like we didn’t fit in at one point of another. This episode we tackle how we deal with those feelings giving an insight to our personal experiences and struggles with imposter syndrome.
It has been a crazy four years and we wanted to take a second to recap the good the bad and the in between with our close friends Manushree Ganta and Monica Blamoun, so tune into this episode to listen to our anecdotes and advice about how we survived high school!
Growing up and feeling like you will never have love or that young love story we see everywhere is normal. Join us and our special guest Darshleen Kaur to talk about our experience of being single.
In this episode, we break down the stigma surrounding mental health and discuss our experiences with mental health in the brown community, personal struggles, and tools for help.
Struggling with confidence is something almost everyone has experienced. In this episode, we discuss the various aspects surrounding the topic from how to build confidence to our personal stories.
This episode is incredibly heartbreaking to make however we wanted to provide a PSA on the overturning of Roe v Wade.
In this episode, we talk about the first-generation guilt and trauma that many immigrant children feel.
Change is inevitable and as a result it can be scary. Join us as we discuss how to accept change and welcome a new season.
While we both have never been in a relationship we both would argue platonic breakups are the worst, and we have years of experience dealing with those. Check out or retelling, advice, and rants surrounding friendship breakups.