Podcast | If you had three wishes, what would you wish for?
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The world feels pretty divided right now, doesn’t it? I’m convinced the mere fact so many people feel comfortable listening to music without headphones on public transport is a sign of the apocalypse.
When it can often feel as though we’re surrounded by conflict, injustice and hatred, we are all people who fundamentally want the same things. That’s what Anjali Kumar discovered when she went on a search to find God. In her book Stalking God: My Unorthodox Search for Something to Believe In, she stumbled across something truly fascinating about what human beings want, need and desire.
How she came about this was, as you’ll hear in our conversation, a happy accident but it was the beginning of a truly inspiring journey.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hi and welcome. I am your host, Emiggen-Awardner, and in my nearly 20-year career as a beauty and health |
| 0:12.5 | writer, I have interviewed a lot of people. Supermodels, entrepreneurs, authors, celebrities and doctors, |
| 0:18.5 | and many of these conversations had a real impact on me, and I'd come away feeling inspired, excited and doctors, and many of these conversations had a real impact on me, |
| 0:21.5 | and I'd come away feeling inspired, excited, informed and really empowered. And at the back |
| 0:26.6 | of my mind, I'd always think, I wish I could just publish the tape so people could really feel |
| 0:31.0 | that conversation. Well, on this podcast, you get to feel the conversation. I talk with experts, |
| 0:36.7 | guests and a few friends who I hope will |
| 0:38.2 | inspire, inform and empower you and maybe also challenge you, whether you're looking for |
| 0:43.2 | self-help, self-improvement, beauty advice, health insights, business know-how, or just some good |
| 0:48.1 | old-fashioned life advice and a bit of a laugh. It's all here. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:54.3 | My guest in this episode of the podcast is the author and lawyer, Angelique Kumar, who I invited on the show to talk about what she discovered when she went looking for God. |
| 1:03.7 | And this is not your conventional spiritual pilgrimage, because it started when she considered what she would have to tell her daughter when her daughter asked the inevitable questions about things like God, religion and faith. |
| 1:15.6 | Anjali realized that in order to answer these questions, she needed to better understand her own beliefs, |
| 1:21.6 | which meant pretty much kind of questioning and analyzing everything that she understood up to that point. And so in this conversation, |
| 1:29.1 | Angeley describes being spiritually curious whilst being open to absolutely everything. And she didn't |
| 1:34.6 | explore the big box religions, as it were, but instead went on this journey of meeting witches in New York |
| 1:40.8 | City to understand their beliefs, a shaman in Peru and a healer in Brazil. |
| 1:45.0 | And it was perhaps this trip to Brazil that led Angelie to her most interesting discovery |
| 1:49.8 | and what she learned about people's needs and wants in life and how actually we are all bound |
| 1:55.2 | by pretty much the same needs and wants. We also discuss what it's like when you don't know what to believe, |
| 2:02.6 | how to be open-minded in the face of so many different views, |
| 2:05.6 | and how spiritual practices are viewed today and how they are far less woo-woo |
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