Best Megha Upadhyaya Podcasts (2024)

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S3E26 - An Ode to Sustainable Art & Jewelery ft. Riddhi Patel 12:25

3y ago12:25

12:25

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to creativity & creatives. This episode spotlights sustainability & sustainable jewelery with Riddhi Patel. She's a costume jewelry designer from NIFT, Mumbai. She is a maker at heart and she loves to paint; capture vivid colors, patterns, and te…

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S3E25 - How to read a non-fiction book 4:58

3+ y ago4:58

4:58

Reading non-fiction books can be a drag for some. If you read just 2-3 non-fiction books per year and always feel like you're falling short, tune into this episode. Megha Upadhyaya talks about the things you might be missing while reading this genre. It's said that non-fiction reading transforms your life, but for that, you need to build your own r…

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S3E24 - Debunking Indie Author Stigmas 5:28

3+ y ago5:28

5:28

Being an indie or non-traditional writer is a tough path. They're are tenacious, determined to get their work out there, with or without the traditional means. But actually being able to support themselves with their work can be a huge challenge. Megha Upadhyaya talks about ways to help indie authors rise above the stigma that is self publishing. "…

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S3E23 - Creating and Writing Audio Drama ft. Elliot Somerfield 12:43

3+ y ago12:43

12:43

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to creativity & creatives. This episode spotlights creating and writing an audio drama with Elliot Somerfield. He's a writer, sound designer and a voice actor, making podcasts and plays. He loves to read, listen to indie music and cycle. You can …

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S3E22 - Becoming a Children Book Author to make a career out of writing ft. Melody Pendlebury 19:08

3+ y ago19:08

19:08

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to creativity & creatives. This episode spotlights writing and publishing with Melody Pendlebury. She is an elementary school teacher by day, and an author any time she has left. She has published five books and has founded her own publishing lia…

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S3E21 - Considering Your Natural Self in Voice-Over Talent ft. Sean Lambourne 19:52

3+ y ago19:52

19:52

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to creativity & creatives. This episode spotlights Voice over talent with Sean Lambourne, a working Voice Over for the last couple of years. He originally went to college to get his bachelors to go to law school before deciding he wanted to take …

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S3E20 - How writing about difficult experiences can help you take back your power? 4:48

3+ y ago4:48

4:48

Have you ever seen something and you wish you could have said something — but you didn’t?Has something ever happened to you and you never said anything about it — but you should have? You can use creative writing to unsilence things we’ve been keeping silent. It’s a way of unburdening ourselves in just 3 simple steps. Tune in to know!…

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S3E19 - Finding the essence of poetry, art and literature ft. Tyler Martin 22:33

3+ y ago22:33

22:33

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to writing. This episode spotlights poetry & its form with Tyler R. Martin, a veteran having served in the US Army and now a published poet living in New York. His poetry attempts to put life under a microscope revealing the good, the bad and the…

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S3E18 - Inspired Ideas and Fostering Social-Emotional Learning ft. Shalmali Jadhav 18:33

3+ y ago18:33

18:33

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to writing/inspiration. This episode spotlights mental health and suicide prevention along with Social and Emotional Leaning with Shalmali Jadhav. She's a founder and director at Empathy for You, founder and CEO at You Lead, an International Yout…

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S3E17 - Embracing poetry as an art form ft. Robert Birkhofer 27:32

3+ y ago27:32

27:32

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to writing. This episode spotlights poetry writing and impact of social media on a writer's life with a poet/writer, Robert Birkhofer. He's a dreamer, and a coffee drinker who enjoys writing short stories and poetry, and his work has been publish…

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S3E16 - Uncovering content writing & freelance writing ft. Dona Buenaseda 11:59

3+ y ago11:59

11:59

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to writing. This episode spotlights content writing and freelance writing with a freelance Content Writer/ Ghostwriter and blogger from the Philippines. Currently, she's working as a freelancer in an insurance company based in Denver Colorado. Sh…

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S3E15 - There’s no single template for a great storytelling ft. Alex Freeman 27:34

4y ago27:34

27:34

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to writing. This episode spotlights bookwriting and playwriting with an incredible artist, Alex Freeman. Alex is a New York City based audiobook narrator, actor, and director. He has been seen on stages across the country, and his voice can be he…

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S3E14 - Writing a book with a co-author ft. Chelsi Arnold and JD Boudreaux 24:37

4y ago24:37

24:37

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to writing. This episode spotlights bookwriting with a co-author. Chelsi Arnold and JD Boudreaux authored 2 books - When Time Stood Still and Endings and Beginnings for a charity, the Cajun Navy Relief. Chelsi was born and raised in Texas. She gr…

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Featured: Rethinking Mental Health on World Mental Health Day ft. Raashi Thakran 14:26

4y ago14:26

14:26

This episode spotlights mental health in conversation with Raashi Thakran, a mental health advocate, social activist and an engineer from Bangalore. As a changemaker from Change.org’s flagship program – She Creates Change, in July last year, Raashi started a petition asking the government to launch a National Helpline Number for Suicide Prevention …

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S3E13 - Breaking the silence and becoming an author & activist ft. Penny Hooper 20:04

4y ago20:04

20:04

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to writing. This episode spotlights bookwriting with Penny Hooper (AKA The Girl Who Whispered). Penny is a multi-award winning author, blogger and activist based in the United Kingdom. Having grown up with Selective Mutism she now uses her voice …

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Featured: 'Are we dealing with mental health pandemic?' with psychologist Dr. Jyoti Sharma 22:48

4y ago22:48

22:48

This episode spotlights mental health, psychological problems, bridging social distance and more in conversation with Dr. Jyoti Sharma, a psychologist and mindfulness coach and practitioner. Since her childhood, Jyoti explored her world through her imagination and was a big dreamer. She wished to pursue her career in anthropology then geography. As…

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S3E12 - Writing Fantasy, World & Character Building ft Cady Hammer 19:21

4y ago19:21

19:21

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to writing. This episode spotlights fantasy writing with Cady Hammer. From the time she was a child of eleven, writing her first novel between classes, Cady explored her world through her imagination. She was often teased for being in her own wor…

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S3E11 - Breaking into the realms of writing science fiction ft. Chris Ritchey 15:20

4y ago15:20

15:20

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to writing. This episode spotlights science fiction writing with Chris Ritchey. Chris has published works in sci-fi, paranormal, slice-of-life, and hist-fiction. He grew up reading Jack London, and strives to bring the adventure elements into his…

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S3E10 - Singer-songwriters on songwriting ft. Joanne T. Zuo En & Pek Si Ming 19:21

4y ago19:21

19:21

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to writing. This episode spotlights songwriting ft. Joanne T. Zuo En and Pek Si Ming, Singaporean singer-songwriters. Both are a long time friends sharing a lot of common music interest like Cosmos People (宇宙人), DAY6, BTS and Epik High. JamiJam (…

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Featured: Level up into the world of game designing ft. Shikhar Juyal 23:56

4y ago23:56

23:56

This episode spotlights the art and science of game designing featuring Shikhar Juyal, a professional game designer working with Ubisoft Da Nang. He's an engineer turned game designer who has a keen interest in AR/VR and other immersive media and speculative design. Juyal spends most of his time tinkering with obscure stuff to make a new playful in…

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S3E09 - How do you take care of your creative life? 5:26

4y ago5:26

5:26

The world send to be standing still and yet changing so much. How do you take care of your creative life for what it's worth? I've put together a few practices you might find helpful. Tune in! Inside the episode- Walking by Henry David Thoreau, Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com for Sylvia Plath last letters and Poetry Foun…

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S3E08 - Becoming a bestselling author ft. Stuti Changle 31:45

4y ago31:45

31:45

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to writing. This episode spotlights becoming a bestselling author with Stuti Changle. She is the popular author of the much-loved books ‘On The Open Road’ and ‘You Only Live Once?’ who is on a mission to inspire the youth to pursue their dreams w…

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S3E07 - Breaking into UX Writing & Voice over talent ft. Sultana Varawalla 21:21

4y ago21:21

21:21

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to writing. This episode spotlights UX writing & voice over talent.Oscillating between two ends of the same spectrum tied together with words, Sultana Varawalla is a writer and a voice-over artist. When not crafting her own stories, she's locked …

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Featured: Finding Your Voice & Podcasting with Stanley Sam 9:46

4y ago9:46

9:46

This episode spotlights the need to podcasting with Stanly Sam, a host & producer of The Stan Perspective. He creates this Podcast based on his opinions and point of views about the different context of biblical/religious/scientific/cultural facts about mankind. Stanly is a final year MCA student working as a Human resource representative and loves…

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S3E06 - Authors on Bookwriting & Publishing ft. Samyuktha Nair 22:49

4y ago22:49

22:49

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to writing. This episode spotlights bookwriting & publishing with Samyuktha Nair, an author of 5 books and counting. Her genres range from poetry to romance to historical fiction, and she also works as an editor in the publishing industry. Samyuk…

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S3E05 - Comedians on Comedy Writing ft. Vaibhav Karn 10:13

4y ago10:13

10:13

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to writing. This episode spotlights comedic writing with a stand up comedian, Vaibhav Karn, whose journey will make you go ROFL. "Writing jokes and performing them is a next level thrill when you are constantly unaware of the responses you'd get …

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S3E04 - Threading sentiments into words ft. Aman Krishan 9:17

4y ago9:17

9:17

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to writing. This episode spotlights creative writing & poetry. A creative writer at The Indian Idiot (aka TII), Aman Krishan, whose writings will leave you awestruck joined today to express his love for poetries. He's into poetry writing which is…

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S3E03 - Writing emotion in your story ft. Dhara Kapadia 10:28

4y ago10:28

10:28

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to writing. This episode spotlights a Select Writer at Terribly Tiny Tales (aka TTT), Dhara Kapadia, who is capturing hearts with her writings. Her hobby is to find poetry in the everyday, the mundane, on the streets. She's constantly in love wit…

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S3E02 - Korean, a luminous & worth learning language ft. Ritu Mitragotri 11:44

4y ago11:44

11:44

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to writing. This episode spotlights Korean language learning with Ritu Mitragotri. She is also known as Mint. She loves to make art and learn new things - "The world is a canvas and you can do many things and experience many things as you are on …

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S3E01 - A gentle reminder to aspiring writers 3:02

4y ago3:02

3:02

Being a writer is all about expressing your unique perspective with feeling and originality, not about having a huge vocabulary or getting published, says author Jacqueline Woodson. Get ready for your stories, articles, poems and essays to unravel — all of them.

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S2E08 - Authors on Bookwriting ft Sangamithra Nataraj 7:49

4y ago7:49

7:49

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and her guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to writing. This episode spotlights bookwriting with Sangamithra Nataraj. She has written 4 books - The Wolf in the Mountains, Going Back Home, She Writes Her Story and Rainbow Narratives. Tune in to get some dose of tips, tactics and tricks! Fin…

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S2E07 - 40 Sec Read: The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski 1:00

4y ago1:00

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The poem is free verse (no rhyme) and repeats the words life, death, light, you, and gods. The line "your life is your life," encourages the reader to not make exceptions to their own needs.

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S2E06 - 60 Sec Read: Contradictions by Paulo Coelho 2:04

4y ago2:04

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One of the best "short reads".

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S2E05 - 60 Sec Read: Warning by Jenny Joseph 1:33

4y ago1:33

1:33

This poem is separated into uneven sets of lines. There is no rhyming pattern in this poem but there are moments of repetition (usage of AND) which unifies the text.

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S2E04 - 20 Sec Read: Fire and Ice by Robert Frost 0:40

4y ago0:40

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The symbolism of the poem is commendable. Here, Frost symbolizes fire as desire or love, and ice is symbolized to be destruction and hate. This is one of my favourites!

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S2E03 - 40 Sec Read: Love After Love by Derek Walcott 1:01

4y ago1:01

1:01

What I like about this poem is that, it instructs, gently, and reassures. With no set rhyme scheme, the poem is a loose structure pinned with occasional short lines and single words. It takes its time, the subtle pauses placed for the reader to ponder on.

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S2E02 - 60 Sec Read: Respect for Mystery by Paulo Coelho 1:21

4y ago1:21

1:21

Impeccable respect!

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S2E01 - 60 Sec Read: A Smile to Remember by Charles Bukowski 1:39

4y ago1:39

1:39

I like how this poem is free of any structure and has broken the sentences in a way that the flow of emotions are seen throughout.

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S1E06 - Songwriters on Songwriting ft. Jibin Abraham 6:33

4y ago6:33

6:33

Talking Real, a live talk show where Megha Upadhyaya and guests bring you weekly insights dedicated to writing. This episode spotlights songwriting with Jibin Abraham. Tune in to get some dose of tips, tactics and tricks! Find Jibin Abraham on YouTube (www.youtube.com/c/JibinAbraham), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Xdz2SQRbpt6XBhcJYc2KH?…

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S1E05 - Identifying your voice 2:55

4y ago2:55

2:55

Ask yourself - What do you write about? What kind of stories get you going? If your writing was a person, what would be its top 5 attributes? Tune in!

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S1E04 - Storytelling with the 3Cs 4:18

4y ago4:18

4:18

Storytelling fundamentals are the 3Cs - Character, Conflict and Context. In context, Robert McKee, "Conflict is the music of story." Tune in!

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S1E03 - Unlocking creativity with fluttering pages 2:00

4y ago2:00

2:00

Try reading diary fiction to get an idea. Tune in!

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S1E02 - Sticking with the 6 keys 4:37

4y ago4:37

4:37

These 6 key steps will form the foundation of your work: 1. Find a place 2. Find a medium 3. Read inspiring works 4. Set the conditions 5. Agree a time 6. Sketching and staying inspired. Tune in! In context, as stated by T.S. Eliot, "Often writing is bad, it's because the writer was conscious when they should have been an conscious and unconscious …