Nayeema Raza on Longevity in Life & Love
Naked Beauty
The Naked Beauty Podcast
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Nayeema Raza brought us the same curiosity and knowledge she brings to her Smart Girl, Dumb Questions listeners. Her early life was spent globe-trotting, so hearing her firsthand perspective on the similarities in beauty standards and practices is fascinating. Nayeema proudly detailed some of her favorite aspects of Pakistani beauty culture, especially how it has been shaped by powerful Islamic women and their preference for natural beauty treatments. We ended with a great discussion about all that she’s learned about her body while freezing her eggs and dating in NYC.
Tune in as we discuss:
- Pakistani Beauty Culture’s unique history and strong cultural roots
- The difference between anti-ageing and longevity culture
- What we should be asking about perimenopause and menopause
- Why freezing her eggs made her feel powerful
Stay in touch with me: @brookedevard
Follow Nayeema @nayeemaraza and listen to Smart Girl, Dumb Questions
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, this is Brooke DeVard, and you're listening to the Naked Beauty podcast. Today, I am joined in studio with Naima Raza. Welcome to Naked Beauty. I'm going to go through your bio and your accomplishments while you sit here. Is that okay? |
| 0:20.4 | How horrific. Yes, I do that. I'm just going to... |
| 0:23.4 | Naima Raza is a journalist, podcaster, and filmmaker whose work has been featured in the New York Times, The Cut, and the Tribeca Film Festival. |
| 0:30.4 | Naima just launched her independent podcast, which is very good, by the way. Smart Girl, dumb questions. Each Friday, she asks direct, unfiltered questions we all want the answer to with amazing |
| 0:39.1 | guests like Mark Cuban, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Kenji Lopez-Alt. |
| 0:43.1 | Naima is a multi-hyphenate and multicultural. |
| 0:45.5 | She's Pakistani American, but grew up in Indonesia and Sudan, and lived much of her adult |
| 0:50.1 | life between UK, Vietnam, and Jordan, Libya, South Africa, and more. These days, she's |
| 0:55.9 | mostly in New York City, living and working and dating like a modern day, Carrie Bradshaw. We are going |
| 1:01.2 | to get into it all. Naima, welcome to naked beauty. Brooke, thank you so much for having me. I love |
| 1:06.7 | the show. I love what you do. And thank you for having me, but also for embarrassing me by reading |
| 1:11.7 | things to me about me. Listen, you are very smart and you've done so many amazing things. I realized |
| 1:17.4 | when I was doing research to interview that I'd read a lot of your articles for the New York Times |
| 1:21.8 | without, you know, knowing who you were, that we even had, like, friends in common. And we have |
| 1:26.5 | Stanford in common. Right. We do have Stanford. But you went to Stanford. I had like friends in common. And we have Stanford in common. |
| 1:27.8 | Right. We do have Stanford. I went to grad school there. Yeah. And I'm a little older than you. |
| 1:32.4 | So I went after you. Okay. I graduated. I graduated from Stanford and moved to London. I |
| 1:38.2 | Yes. Yes. But I and I love the concept of smart girl dumb questions because I feel like intelligence, |
| 1:47.4 | like the biggest marker of intelligence is like curiosity. Yeah. I think that's how you also get |
| 1:51.6 | smarter, right? It's just by asking. And I realized that I was part of this ecosystem and media |
| 1:56.3 | where so many of the interviews that I was producing or doing were about showing what I knew or like |
| 2:02.1 | getting this incremental bite of information, a scoop in news terms, that for 99% of the world |
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