Hear Me Roar with Ashveen Kohli

Introducing Hear Me Roar

This is the Hear Me Roar Podcast, with me your host Ashveen Kohli. 

And these are the most powerful minority voices you should hear! We discuss building businesses, money, mindset, mental health, experiences and most importantly, the unique superpowers of each of our guests! 

If you love the Diary of a CEO by Steven Bartlett or the High Performance Podcasts, you’re in the right place and I promise you’re going to love this! 

Every person who joins us on this podcast is a minority or South Asian with a Brilliant story. These are impressive bodies who you may not know are working in the back but amplifies the input and impression from the South Asian and minority community! 

Theres so much to learn out here but we may not be in reach to talk to all of these giants, so I’m here compile it all for you! 

I’m your host Ashveen Kohli, I am an ex-investment banker in Canary Wharf and now im the Head of Digital Solutions in the marketing industry. I also run a charity with my family whose core focus is around community cohesion and bringing our minority communities out into large impactful events! 

Our upcoming event is called United Colours and we will be joined by Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games!! Yes its going to be massive and we’re expecting around 40,000 of you guys to attend! Theres going to be live musical performances, historical exhibitions, art galleries, one of the largest & best South Asian Fusion food markets in the UK and a number of ted style talks! The event is completely free so make sure you go to unitedcolours.org and get your tickets right now! Its on the 28th and 29th May 2022 so there’s not long to get your tickets! 

Thank you for listening and please make sure you hit the Follow or Subscribe for me! 

#24 The most important Oral Exam you should take: Money, Business and Mental Health w/ Dr Sorabh

Okay not that kind of 'Oral'! Minds out of the gutters please! 

This episode is joined by Dr Sorabh Patel, a close friend and serious high-achiever. He's built an incredible life at the age of 29 and currently runs two dental practises in Central London. We sit down and talk about the business hats that he wears, how he came to manage 2 dental establishments and the toughest lessons he's learnt! 

We’re talking the holy trinity: Money, Business and Mental Health.

As Dentists have the 2nd highest suicide rate in the UK, and is discussed in this episode so please note there is a *Trigger Warning for Suicide and Mental Health* 

 

#23 Jaye Parson - The Celebrity Fashion Designer to Watch! (The most inspirational story you‘ll hear today!)

Jaye Parson has a story that will sound so familiar to many, and yet is so unique that only he could have walked that path. Jaye Parson started out as a regular kid in South London, who then went down a path resulting in him being stabbed at 17 years old. Fast forward to now, he has become one of the names to watch out for! As a music artist, High Celebrity Fashion designer and an upcoming motion picture artist, he is one of the uber talented! 

 

Jaye Parson is one of the few that has designed clothes for Floyd Mayweather, Ashanti, Erykah Badu, Omarion, and so many more! We ask him about his favourite Celebrities to work with and his least favourite. We talk about how the zero sized model mentality has righteously died and why we need to be dressing for everyone and anyone. 

 

We’re also talking about the South London scene, what the real influences are and how to make it big. 

 

He is a real life Role Model for so many and so much to learn from! 

#22 Dating in Color! The book that everyone is talking about! Do women have a Shelf-life? Why is it different dating as a POC? How to avoid a narcissistic person?

Media across the globe is filled with exhausting levels of opinions about dating. From this weeks Love Island episode to this months new dating app! If it isn’t a review of Hinge or Tinder, its another meme on instagram portraying how sad being single is.. and trust me I’ve emulated almost very single one of those memes in real life. So this episode is dedicated to all the folks out there who can tick all of the above on that sheet. We are joined by newly published author Angele Sandha!! Also known from her instagram handle @ask.angeele. We’re going to be talking about Dating in Colour, which is also the name of her book, which btw you should immediately download to your kindle right now! One question I have is about women having a so-called ‘shelf life’  and why we go out there looking for super masculine or feminine energy partners. And I’m not just talking about the tough exteriors to dating that we all know so well, Angele and I talk about experiences, history and how sociology or human behaviours can feed into our choices! 

#21 Sugarae's inside life! We're talking Music, UK Grime, Mental Health for POC and Growing up Black in Britain!

Today we're sitting down with Sugarae, who is an old friend and a BBC introducing musician artist!! We sit down to talk about his influences, upbringing, family, and his art. We also discuss his experiences in putting his mental health first and going to therapy. The stigma around therapy as a POC and what he thinks its important to take it seriously, even if the community is still a few steps behind. 

#20: What Schools Won't Teach You: Why your failures are as important as your successes! From the Worlds Top Joint Venture Expert Sohail Khan

Recently we’ve been in this whirlwind of people investing all their money into Crypto’s learning about NFT’s, trying to figure out what Elon Musk is trying to do with Tesla and most importantly, we’re all here trying to figure out how we can make some money from all this! So today i have Sohail Khan so is the reigning World’s Top Joint Venture expert. He’s gone from building a multi million pound business, to loosing it and being flat broke in 2009 and then built his way back up to being a joint venture millionaire again in 2021.

 

We’re discussing his experience, what skills it takes, how to learn where the best business options are and specifically what it was that made him a millionaire. He believes that everyone can achieve this and I agree with him.

#19 Ever imagined losing your eyesight? This is one woman's story on her sight loss, with Focus Birmingham

focusbirmingham.org.uk

Facebook: @FocusBirmingham

Twitter: @FocusBirmingham

This week we are talking about losing one of your senses. Specifically, I mean your eye-sight. We’re talking to someone who has a visual impairment and we discuss her unique mindset on life and her mindfulness practises. We’re talking about why its not appropriate to be using the word Blind, and we’re also going to be talking to Pav from Focus Birmingham. Focus are a charity set up to support anyone with a visual impairment and their work is currently concentrated around the knowledge and support gaps in the South Asian Community!

Before we kick off, if you want to help support Focus Birmingham Charity, I will link their details in the info so you can out their amazing work and maybe even get involved! I know they’re always looking for volunteers, and support from the local community, so check them out!

#18 Burnt out? Think you have Imposter syndrome? Life of a Life Coach !

We're sitting down with Marissa McCallam who has been running her Life coaching business for years now. Life Coaching is something we here more and more now. Loads of celebrities swear that everyone needs one, so we wanted to understand why. I wanted to know how we can benefit from a life coach and how it honestly works! We're talking through some human behavioural research, some her well known tactics and i call out the imposters on Imposter Syndrome. 

#17 How to be a Tech entrepreneur! Starting a business from Zero to Something!

How to a start a tech company with zero experience? For everyone that has that idea they're thinking about and want to hear from real experiences, then listen to our episode with Tom Walker! He is the Co-Founder of Veenpool Media and Veenpool Studios. They started out in 2019 and now have a growing team, global clients and a shit tonne of stories on what they recommend to anyone else wanting to start up their business! Tom Walker's Tech business is built on minority owned brands and clients. He talks about the industry and how they started with just an idea and his advice to new entrepreneurs trying to scale up!

#16 What is a Sikh? What do they believe? with Professor Harjeet Grewal

http://ucalgary.ca/giving/sikh-studies

This question is one that I've been wanting to sit down and talk about from the beginning of this podcast! And who better, than Professor Harjeet Grewal who heads the Sikh Studies program at the University of Calgary (Canada). He is currently on a mission to create a permanent Sikh Studies curriculum at the University of Calgary, so continuous research and learnings can be established. It also creates a space for the community to pursue this in further education! 

As a Sikh myself, I have been asked by people 'Ash, what is a Sikh??' So today we're going to pick just a few words and actions from the Guru's to go into and how this is applicable to our generations today!