This is Hello Freedom and I'm your host Terry Cole.

For almost two decades I've been a licensed psychotherapist and transformation coach, and on this show I will bring you simple strategies based on practical psychology, inspiring expert interviews, and my own insights and observations

from my time on the front lines of the fascinating worlds

of entertainment, impairment, and mental health.

Now let's get going with today's episode. Well, hello and welcome to Hello Freedom. I'm your host Terry Cole.

As always, I'm super grateful that you decided to spend a little bit of time with me here today.

And today I'm going to be diving into parental approval, even when you're grown up. What happens if you come from a culture

that is very strict in one particular way

and as you become a grown up,

you start to change things or do something different or go against

that culture I've always been really fascinated with how I have so many friends

who are Indian and their parents are from India, how they negotiate having one foot in these

zillion years steep traditions that their families are expecting.

I mean, some of my friends, their parents had arranged marriages actually.

And then they had, then these are they're entrepreneurs, they're kick-ass coaches, they're people who have

businesses who are making tons of money.

And I was always fascinated with how do you manage those two things and how can you be both of those things and what happens when you

reach a tipping point of having to choose one or the other which is exactly what happened with my next guest. So this is a woman

who I was very familiar with her work. Her name is Vassa V. Kumar and she was kind of like a kick in your

pants life coach type of a person. She is a psychotherapist, special education teacher

and a certified coach always out there though and

and kind of an in-your-face brand right lots of media she's always been

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