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b"Are you happy with where you\\u2019re at in life? \\xa0Are you comfortable in your own skin? \\xa0Did you feel pressured to get married or to marry within your faith? \\xa0Living up to others standards doesn\\u2019t work! \\xa0Aradhana is 32 years old, born and raised in Southern California.\\xa0 She's a Clinical Social Worker by day and mental health/ lifestyle influencer by night. She struggles with Generalized Anxiety Disorder. She was raised in a strict South Asian household and because of that her anxiety was often disregarded as \\u201cbeing a cry baby or uninterested\\u201d. Her parents tried hard to mold her into the \\u201cTypical Indian Child\\u201d, however each time they did it would cause her Anxiety to worsen. It wasn\\u2019t until she got to college that she got any form of validation for her Anxiety. She started to take basic Psychology courses and learned about Anxiety and what it looked like. That was when she realized she struggled with a mental illness and that she wasn\\u2019t a \\u201cfailure of an Indian\\u201d. She realized that a lot of her Anxiety came from the Desi Culture and the expectations that are placed on them.\\n\\xa0\\nShe went on to become a Social Worker in the hopes of shedding light on Mental Health in the South Asian community. That was how Aradhana\\u2019s World came about, she created this platform where she talks about the \\u201cToxic Desi Culture\\u201d that so many of us have been raised in. She will be starting a podcast called Di NOT Aunty where she sheds light on different toxic traits from the Desi Community. She's hoping by having a platform like this she will provide South Asian\\u2019s a place where they are validated and where they know that they are not \\u201cdisobedient/bad Indians\\u201d where they can see that their differences are celebrated and welcomed.\\xa0\\nShe's a daddy\\u2019s girl. Her dad has been a huge advocate of her Anxiety and though he struggled with coping with her Anxiety at times he helped her empower herself and remind herself that though she's not the \\u201cperfect Indian child\\u201d she's someone who has proven at each adversity that she's worth fighting for. \\xa0Better Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Controversy.\\nShout to the Dearsis Podcast for the introduction!\\nConnect with Aradhana\\nhttps://www.instagram.com/aradhanasworld/\\nhttps://aradhanasworld.bio.link/\\n\\xa0\\nConnect with Reena\\xa0\\nbettercalldaddy.com\\nlinkedin.com/in/reenafriedmanwatts\\ninstagram.com/reenafriedmanwatts\\ntwitter.com/reenareena\\nMy dad and I would love to hear from you\\npodchaser.com/bettercalldaddy\\nratethispodcast.com/bettercalldaddy"