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Permission to Be Imperfect: Punam Saxena on Identity, Belonging & Building a Legacy That’s Truly Yours
<p>What does it mean to build a legacy when you’ve spent much of your life trying to live up to everyone else’s expectations?</p><p>In this episode, we sit down with Punam V. Saxena—author, educator, TED speaker, and South Asian American parenting advocate—to talk about identity, cultural expectations, motherhood, belonging, and the courage to finally give yourself permission to be fully yourself.</p><p>Growing up as the only South Asian child in her rural Georgia school, Punam learned early what it felt like to have no one to ask, “Is this normal? Is this just...

