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Adulting

#98 Confidence, Music & The British Empire with Nikesh Shukla

Adulting

Oenone

Education, Society & Culture

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Hey Podulters, I hope you’re well! In this week’s episode I speak to writer Nikesh Shukla, about what three things he wishes he was taught in school, namely confidence and self worth, an instrument and The British Empire. Nikesh’s latest book, Brown Baby is a memoir about race, family and home and we reference it a bit throughout, and he also has a podcast of the same name which you can check out too, I hope you enjoy, as always please do rate, review and subscribe.

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0:00.0

Hello, podletas. I hope you're well. In this week's episode I speak to Neckash Shukla about what three things he wishes

0:06.9

He was taught in school namely confidence and self-worth an instrument and about the British Empire properly

0:14.3

Neckash's latest book Brown Baby is a memoir about race, family and home and we reference it a bit throughout

0:19.6

But you can also check out his podcast of the same name. I hope you enjoy and as always please do rate review and subscribe

0:26.6

Bye!

0:33.7

Hello and welcome to Adleting today. I'm joined by Neckash Shukla. Hi. How's it going? Hi

0:41.3

Good. Thank you. How are you doing?

0:43.6

I'm alright. I'm alright. I took myself off for a bike ride today because I could just feel that

0:49.3

The walls were closing in on me a bit and it's amazing what a difference fresh and a bit of exercise and a change of scenery has made to my energy levels

1:02.4

Oh my god. It's so true, but it's been so cold that it's difficult the minute to like get out

1:07.4

To like actually push yourself out the door when it's minus two. It's quite difficult to do that

1:11.9

Yeah, I'm in Bristol so we don't really get snow here

1:14.7

Yeah, Bristol is in this valley where the rain so much that it never gets the grounds always too wet for the snow to sell

1:23.4

God, this is weather chat

1:27.7

I know oh my god, even in lockdown you can't escape the convo can you so how have you actually found this lock these lockdowns?

1:34.2

Are you feeling better in number three or is it kind of worse how are you finding it all?

1:39.4

I

1:44.0

Well, I've got two young kids so lockdown one was an adventure

1:49.3

I locked down two was

1:52.8

um

1:54.0

Trying to rain in optimism and lockdown three feels hard. It feels bleak. It feels I I don't know how you feel

2:01.4

But I wake up most mornings and go well. This is just the rest of our lives and

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