Mandana Dayani: ON BEING JEWISH NOW: Two Years After 10/7
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Guest host Stacy Igel interviews business leader, activist, and I Am a Voter co-founder Mandana Dayani in front of a live audience at the Whitby Hotel. Mandana opens up about her family’s escape from Iran, the resilience that shaped her leadership, her work combating misinformation, and the creation of the Calanet Foundation. She also discusses empowering student activists, navigating advocacy in a polarized world, and the many forms courage and community can take.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens. |
| 0:44.6 | Today's episode is part two of a special series from the On Being Jewish Now event that I hosted but was too sick to attend. |
| 0:53.1 | Alex Strauss and Stacey Eagle heard my call for help and took over hosting. |
| 0:58.4 | Stacey ended up interviewing Mandana, Diani, about her life and career and everything else, |
| 1:04.6 | which I should have done but couldn't, so I am deeply grateful to Stacey for doing this. |
| 1:09.8 | Here's a little bio about Mandana and Stacey has been on this podcast before. |
| 1:14.3 | She's the author of Finding the Calm and the Chaos. |
| 1:16.7 | Mandana Diani is a business leader, human rights activist, and the co-founder of I Am a Voter, |
| 1:22.2 | a national, nonpartisan civic engagement organization. |
| 1:25.7 | Most recently, she was president of Archwell, the production, audio, and philanthropic company founded by Prince Harry and Megan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Prior to Archwell, she spent 15 years building and scaling brands across politics, entertainment, tech, fashion, and digital media. |
| 1:41.7 | Mandana is a globally celebrated brand and marketing expert and regularly |
| 1:45.3 | appears on Morning Joe on MSNBC. She is an active angel investor and advisor to global consumer |
| 1:51.1 | brands, non-profits, and political leaders. Mandana is an immigrant from Iran who credits her |
| 1:55.8 | experience immigrating to the United States as a religious refugee is one of the most |
| 1:59.9 | formative inspirations behind her activism. |
| 2:02.6 | Mandana is an outspoken advocate against anti-Semitism, recently speaking at the United Nations Special Session on Sexual Violence on October 7th, |
| 2:10.6 | and her video condemning Hamas was viewed over 50 million times. |
| 2:15.0 | She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two daughters and a giant |
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