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Living Well with Janet: Real Life Connections over Digital Noise with Palak Dave

Nov 6, 2024

Palak Dave, Founder and CEO of Embiria and author of "Beautiful Everydays," discusses the detrimental effects of digital distractions on personal well-being and relationships. She emphasizes the importance of intentional living and fostering real-life connections. Palak shares her journey from a corporate marketing career to building a community focused on authentic interactions. The conversation highlights the significance of analog communication and self-care practices, particularly for women of color navigating work-life integration.

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Digital distractions hinder our mental health and focus, prompting the need for intentional living and genuine real-life connections.

Palak Dave's personal journey of loss emphasizes embracing life fully and the importance of fostering meaningful experiences with others.

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Intro

3min

Navigating Personal Loss and Embracing Wellness

3min

Embracing Growth Through Childhood Struggles

2min

Pursuing Dreams Amid Digital Distractions

2min

From Corporate Life to Community Connection

18min

Rediscovering the Value of Analog Communication

2min

Finding Balance: Work-Life Integration for Women of Color

14min

One of the biggest challengers to living in the present moment are digital distractions. The advancement of consumer technology has resulted in a lot of habits and behaviors that are detrimental to our health - negative effects on our brains, our ability to focus, our ideas about ourselves, and the quality of our social skills and relationships which have resulted in a loneliness epidemic.

In this episode, I chat with Palak Dave, Founder and CEO of Embiria – a movement and membership community designed to help people slow down and savor life, about this very issue. Through Embiria, she promotes intentional living, urging you to prioritize real-life experiences and connection over digital noise. She is also a speaker, investor, and author of the newly released book Beautiful Everydays: A Guide to Living in the Here and Now. We also chat about her previous career as an award-winning marketer in corporate settings, making the shift to entrepreneurship, being a woman of color and child of immigrants, and her perspective on work-life balance as an entrepreneur in the wellness space.

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Host: Janet Wang

Editor: Victoria Cheng

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