Untether Your Life

Untether Your Life

Untether Your Life empowers listeners to own their health and break free of "templates" for related to career, relationships, and managing mental health, along with issues impacting the South Asian diaspora.

Nikhil Torsekar and Shelly Sood speak with experts in meditation, folks who have struggled with mental illness, clinicians with insights on the South Asian experience and other incredible guests.
Untether Your Life is part of The Shelly Story platform, which captures Nikhil and Shelly’s journey in a blog, book, and upcoming movie. For more info visit shellysood.com or untetheryourlife on social media.

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102: Amy Green Smith - Self-Worth, People-Pleasing, and Nervous System Survival
Jan. 29, 2026

102: Amy Green Smith - Self-Worth, People-Pleasing, and Nervous System Survival

Many of the beliefs that govern our adult lives were formed long before we had the ability to question them. Ideas about worth, safety, obedience, and belonging often take root in childhood and early environments where approv...
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101: Freeman Fung - Travel for Transformation, Identity, and Intention
Jan. 14, 2026

101: Freeman Fung - Travel for Transformation, Identity, and Intention

I first connected with this week's guest - Freeman Fung - through the Mindvalley community. At the time, both of us were actively questioning inherited templates around success, identity, and growth. What began as a conversat...
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100: Mas Vidal Maheshananda - Rethinking Evolution and Vitality
Jan. 7, 2026

100: Mas Vidal Maheshananda - Rethinking Evolution and Vitality

In this milestone 100th episode of Untether Your Life, we revisit a wide-ranging and timely conversation with Mas Vidal Maheshananda - teacher, author, and founder of Dancing Shiva. In today's climate of intense geopolitical ...
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99: Robert Pardi - Grief, Impermanence, and Possibility in Action
Dec. 30, 2025

99: Robert Pardi - Grief, Impermanence, and Possibility in Action

This episode originally aired in March 2023 and is being resurfaced now with added context. Robert Pardi reached out to me on LinkedIn after listening to a previous conversation I'd had on the show with Prison Break author an...
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98: Neelu Kaur - Awakening Your Inner Cheerleader
Dec. 23, 2025

98: Neelu Kaur - Awakening Your Inner Cheerleader

This episode is a rebroadcast of a conversation originally released in August 2023. I'm bringing it back because the themes feel even more relevant today. My guest is Neelu Kaur , author of Be Your Own Cheerleader , speaker, ...
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97: The Brighter Mindset (Part 2 of 2) - Becoming Unshakeable with Shyambo
Dec. 16, 2025

97: The Brighter Mindset (Part 2 of 2) - Becoming Unshakeable with Shyambo

This episode is Part 2 of my conversation with Shyambo , founder of The Brighter Mindset . This week, we explore how practices labeled as biohacks (i.e., cold plunges) can double as powerful tools for spiritual discipline. Sh...
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