Plane Crash Survivor: Tulsi's Insights on Grief and Growth
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CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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They say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but what if it leaves scars that run deeper than the skin? This episode dives into Tulsi's incredible story of surviving a plane crash at age 10, which claimed her entire family and left her with severe burns. Tulsi recounts the harrowing impact of the tragedy, exploring themes of trauma, grief, and self-acceptance. Her journey underscores the importance of positive representation and challenges societal norms about beauty and inclusivity. Tulsi’s insights into healing and the grieving process highlight the need to embrace our grief instead of moving past it. She talks about finding and following our internal GPS and the necessity of a supportive community. Tulsi’s message of living authentically and defying external judgments is a powerful testament to resilience and hope.
Tulsi's Website: https://www.tulsivagjiani.com/
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https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/become-a-living-donor/donating-your-kidney/
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| 0:00.0 | The Powering Politics Podcast is available six times a week, but you might not be. |
| 0:05.9 | If you want to catch up on what happened this week in politics, join me, Laura Dangelow and some of Canada's most tuned-in political strategists to break down the week that was. |
| 0:15.8 | Short on time, the weekly wrap has you covered with a new episode every Saturday. |
| 0:21.4 | This is a CBC podcast. |
| 0:47.3 | Hey, folks, this week, oh, man, we are about to jump into, I think, one of my, one of my all-time favorite conversations. |
| 0:51.0 | Our new friend Tulsi is our guest. |
| 0:57.4 | And Tulsi has just an absolutely mind-blowing story. |
| 1:03.9 | When she was 10 years old, she was involved in a horrible plane crash that took the life of her immediate family and left her covered in severe burns all over her body. |
| 1:15.1 | And she is now in her 30s and she is this, just radiant light of beauty and positivity. |
| 1:24.2 | She's a public speaker. |
| 1:26.1 | She, and she's just, really, like, her whole life is, is, is bringing love and light to the world. |
| 1:35.8 | And we are just so grateful that we had a chance to have Tulsi on the show to spread some of that love. |
| 1:45.5 | And yeah, I mean, just I love speaking to people who like literally every word that comes |
| 1:50.1 | out of their mouth is like some quote you can put down in a book. |
| 1:53.1 | And Tulsi is one of those people. |
| 1:54.5 | So I hope you enjoy this lovely conversation that we had with our new friend and someone that we are going to be |
| 2:04.7 | big fans of for a long time. So enjoy this conversation |
| 2:08.2 | with Tulsi. All right, well, this is going to be an absolute delight. |
| 2:25.6 | We're sitting down with our new friend Tulsi all the way from London. |
| 2:28.6 | And after a little bit of pre-conversation before we got rolling about our favorite football teams and |
| 2:34.3 | you know Las Vegas and Dubai and the similarities in those two cities |
| 2:39.6 | we decided to just dive right in to this wonderful conversation I'm so excited for |
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