🎀👵👧 From Grandma to Granddaughter: "Bows & Ties" and the Power of Sisterhood with Kavya Thakrar 📚✨
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 106 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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🎀👵👧 From Grandma to Granddaughter: "Bows & Ties" and the Power of Sisterhood with Kavya Thakrar 📚✨
The Not Old Better Show, Art of Living Interview Series
🎀📚 Who's the woman you still call when life feels wobbly? 👵👧 Today's episode is brought to you by Caraway. Good Looking. Clean Cooking, and this week on The Not Old – Better Show, 16‑year‑old author Kavya Thakrar shares "Bows and Ties," built from 19 interviews celebrating sisterhood, confidence, and family wisdom. Tell us: who's your "tie"? 💛
🎀👵👧 Quick question: who was the woman who steadied you when you were young—and have you thanked her lately?
This week on The Not Old – Better Show, we're featuring Kavya Thakrar, who published her book "Bows and Ties" at just 16. 📚 It's a collection of 19 interviews with founders, creators, and doctors, woven with reflections on sisterhood, confidence, and connection.
What stayed with me is how naturally this conversation bridges generations. ✨ For grandparents, parents, mentors, and leaders, it's a reminder that the words we say at the kitchen table can echo for decades. For teens, it's proof their voice matters right now.
Try this today: 💬 send one message that starts with, "I still remember when you…" and finish it with a specific moment. A mother. A grandmother. A teacher. A friend. Those details build community—at any age. ❤️
Remember, today's episode is brought to you by Caraway. Good Looking. Clean Cooking.
If you want an episode you can share with your daughter, granddaughter, sister, or your closest circle, this one hits home. 🎧📺 Watch/listen here: notold-better.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Not Old Better Show on radio and podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | The show covering all things health, wellness, culture, and more. |
| 0:11.9 | The show for all of us who aren't old were better. |
| 0:14.8 | Each week we'll interview superstars, experts, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things, all related to this wonderful |
| 0:22.4 | experience of getting better, not older. Now here's your host, the award-winning Paul Vogelzang. |
| 0:32.6 | Thank you, and welcome to the Not Old Better Show, where we celebrate the truth that it's never too late |
| 0:40.1 | to grow to begin again and to build community. Today's episode is brought to you by Carraway, |
| 0:46.5 | good-looking, clean cooking. As this music plays, take a second and think of the women who held you up, your mom, your grandmother, |
| 0:57.0 | a sister, a best friend, a neighbor who showed up when life got heavy. What did she say that |
| 1:03.6 | still lives in you? Now flip it, what would you want the girls and young women in your |
| 1:09.6 | life to carry forward from you? |
| 1:12.4 | Today's guest turned those questions into a book at 16. |
| 1:19.0 | Yes, that's right, at 16. |
| 1:21.9 | Kavya Thakr is the author of Bowes and Ties, a modern keepsake of sisterhood and women's stories. |
| 1:29.4 | During the pandemic, Kavia found herself anxious and insecure, what she calls a self-love deficit. |
| 1:36.4 | The people who helped her back to solid ground were the women closest to home, especially her mother and grandmother. |
| 1:44.9 | And that sparked a bold idea. |
| 1:47.3 | If those conversations could bring change in her, what could they do for others? |
| 1:53.0 | So Kavia made a list of more than 100 women who inspired her, sent the emails and collected 19 yes answers, founders, creators, doctors, and leaders, |
| 2:03.9 | including Chopin Shah of Kuyana and Dr. Deepika Chopra. |
| 2:09.7 | Each conversation becomes a chapter, and each chapter nudges the next, tying the whole book together. |
| 2:16.0 | In our time together, Kavya shares what she learned about confidence, resilience, tying the whole book together. In our time together, caveat shares what she learned about |
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