🎙️ In this heartfelt episode I sit down with Reshma Kearney, a Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher and Healing Guide who helps individuals and families navigate life after loss.

After losing her husband to suicide in 2022, Reshma turned to mindfulness and movement as lifelines in her own healing. Today, she leads Healing Circles for those walking the difficult path of grief, creating compassionate spaces for remembrance, release, and renewal. To me, she is a real leader helping her children, family, and communities grieve and heal with compassion.

Together, we explore how grief can become a teacher — guiding us toward deeper self-awareness, tenderness, and purpose.

🎧 Key Takeaways

1. Grief reshapes us. It can become a powerful teacher that deepens our empathy, resilience, and connection to what truly matters.
2. Healing isn’t about “getting over it.” It’s about learning to live with love, loss, and gratitude all at once — honoring the full range of human experience.
3. Movement and mindfulness reconnect us. Simple, embodied practices can help us feel grounded and reclaim parts of ourselves that grief can silence.
4. Community heals what isolation cannot. Healing Circles and shared spaces remind us we don’t have to carry pain alone — collective healing creates profound transformation.
5. Purpose can emerge from pain. When we allow grief to soften rather than harden us, it can guide us toward service, creativity, and deeper meaning in life and leadership.

📣 If this episode spoke to your heart, share it with someone who needs to hear they’re not alone and connect with Reshma for grief and mindfulness support.

📚 And for a deeper exploration, pick up my book The Loss That Binds Us — part memoir, part guide — wherever books are sold.

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🎙️ Podcast: Regaining Your Equilibrium: Should Shouldering the Demands of Your Life Come at a Cost?

Leaders in the “sandwich generation” often carry a silent load: managing teams and businesses, raising children, and caring for aging parents—all while trying to keep their own lives intact. On the outside, they look like powerhouses. Inside? Many feel stretched thin, unseen, and close to breaking.

In this episode of The Grounded Leader, I sit down with Aditi Davray, consultant to nonprofit, philanthropic, and private sector organizations and doctoral candidate in Educational Leadership and Policy at NYU. She's also a certified Domestic Violence Advocate and was recognized as an Advocate of New York in 2021 by the Mayor's Office to End Gender-Based Violence.

Together, we unpack the toll of nonstop caregiving and leading, and explore how women in particular experience unseen pressures, guilt, and identity shifts during this stage of life.

We also look at how organizations and families can step up, what wellness practices like Ayurveda and mindfulness can offer, and how redefining success can help leaders in the sandwich generation reclaim energy, agency, and fulfillment.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re carrying the world for everyone else while quietly putting your own dreams on pause, this conversation is for you.

🔑 Key Takeaways

• The invisible weight of caregiving & leadership: Why women leaders in the sandwich generation face unique challenges.
• The emotional toll: How guilt, grief, and burnout quietly shape both careers and personal lives.
• Identity shifts: What happens when leadership collides with caregiving and women begin to question their sense of self.
• Ripple effects in the workplace: How silent burnout affects teams, organizations, and culture.
• Pathways to resilience: Small but powerful ways women can prioritize their own well-being without guilt.
• Redefining success: Moving away from “doing it all” toward living fully, sustainably, and with balance.
• The role of holistic practices: How Ayurveda, yoga, and mindfulness can anchor leaders through this demanding life stage.

📣 My friend, if you’re listening and feel seen by today’s conversation, know this: you’re not failing—you’re simply carrying too much. You deserve support, rest, and dreams that don’t have to wait for “someday.”

👉 Share this episode with another woman in your life who’s quietly holding it all together. Start a conversation, and let her know she’s not alone.
👉 For more resources on balance and Ayurvedic wellness for leaders, connect with me on Instagram @swetavikram or visit www.swetavikram.com.

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Disclaimer: The content is purely informative and educational in nature and should not be construed as medical advice. The information is not intended for use in the diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevention of any disease. Please use the content only in consultation with an appropriate certified medical or healthcare professional. If you are nursing, taking medications, or have a medical condition, please consult with your health care practitioner prior to the use of any of these herbs.

Sleep, Success & the Subtle Body—The Nightly Rituals of Grounded Leaders

Sleep isn’t just rest—it’s leadership hygiene. In this episode of The Grounded Leader, host Sweta Vikram unpacks why insomnia is more than a personal struggle—it’s a leadership crisis.

Drawing from both Ayurvedic wisdom and modern science, we explore how poor sleep depletes ojas (your vitality), disrupts your subtle body, and derails your ability to make wise, grounded decisions. You’ll learn why high-achievers are especially vulnerable to vata imbalances that keep the mind racing at night—and how nightly rituals can help restore balance, clarity, and resilience.

🌿 Inside this episode:

• The hidden leadership cost of poor sleep.
• How Ayurveda views sleep as one of the three pillars of life.
• Why “tired but wired” nights signal a deeper imbalance.
• Five grounding rituals leaders can adopt tonight to improve sleep and performance.

Because the world doesn’t need more sleep-deprived leaders running on fumes. It needs rested, intuitive, and radiant ones.

✨ If this episode resonated, don’t keep it to yourself—share it with a fellow leader, founder, or entrepreneur who’s been struggling with burnout or sleepless nights.

🌙 Download my Free Rejuvenating Sleep Guide to start your own nightly ritual today.

💌 For personalized Ayurvedic coaching on sleep, stress, and leadership wellness, connect with me directly at swetavikram.com

Until next time—stay rooted. Stay rested. Stay radiant.

If you are looking for advice from a trained yogi and Ayurvedic Doctor, contact Sweta here.

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Disclaimer: The content is purely informative and educational in nature and should not be construed as medical advice. The information is not intended for use in the diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevention of any disease. Please use the content only in consultation with an appropriate certified medical or healthcare professional. If you are nursing, taking medications, or have a medical condition, please consult with your health care practitioner prior to the use of any of these herbs.