"I Always Felt More Loved When I Was Successful" with Charithra Chandran | A Millennial Mind Podcast

Dreaming of a fulfilling life? ✨ Join our supportive community with my LIVE weekly workshops! Every Sunday, we explore self-development, strengthen relationships, and unlock the path to financial freedom: shivani-pau.circle.so/checkou...
This week i sit down to record a very raw, honest and heartfelt podcast with Charithra Chandran, known as the Diamond of Bridgerton, discussing her unconventional journey into acting and her struggles with mental health. She opens up about transitioning from a corporate job to pursuing acting full-time, facing insecurities and high expectations along the way. Charithra reflects on the cultural differences in defining oneself by job titles and highlights the importance of taking risks and embracing both confidence and insecurity. This episode is really vulnerable and I hope you learn as much as I did!
KEEP IN TOUCH:
🌍 My website - www.shivanipau.com
📸 Instagram - / shivani.pau
💌 Join My Community "The Collective" - shivani-pau.circle.so/checkou...

[@Jen_nyyy]

I hope she knows she’s wise beyond her years!

[@i_brand3n]

Lol.... I honestly didn't recognize her until Bridgerton was mentioned. I absolutely love that show and I was an instant fan of Charithra and Simone. As a fellow Tamilian, I am very proud that she and Simone are representing the South Asian community on this platform. This is another fantastic episode, I absolutely love and enjoyed this one.

[@siddhatad]

I think this is a cultural difference in South Asians geographically. Because, When I'm at work, my identity is my job or the work I'm doing. But when I'm at my hometown, my identity becomes someone's daughter or sister or granddaughter. At home, people also know me as someone who loves to paint and cook, and they are rarely interested in talking about the "work" that I do.

[@mansha24]

Charithra's experience speaks to me on a very personal level. As a kid who was always reading at home and dancing and going for debates and what not, my family members thought of me as this child prodigy who would be someone special, with this idea of inherent talent and intelligence that would take me far. But as I aced through my teens and suddenly hit a plateau while others gradually kept moving forward, I felt like I lost control and let everyone down, even though it was not drop from topper to failure but from an A+ to an A-. Till this day my dad says "Oh but you have so much potential yet to be unlocked, you just need to work harder.." but what if I don't? What if this IS my best?

[@ruthhailu2181]

It’s funny how the stage she was describing right after graduating college and just wanting to take a year to see what could happen is exactly what I’m on the verge of now and too see that she succeeded in that gives me so much hope!! I wosh she could be my fairy god mother I love her

[@sunvavachi]

Ya it's really amazing. Grace with hard work. I hope we all have that blessing. 🍀🙏🏽

[@yoya4766]

I'm glad Netflix promotes diversity. The interest these actors generate enables a wider audience to feel seen and recongised by themselves and others. For instance the topics covered in this interview resonate with south asians, women, immigrants.

[@user-og5vw3bd1e]

I'm her and she's me. I just feel her so much, love her.

[@mayurim9839]

Thank you for sharing this conversation; really resonated with it! Looking forward to future conversations :)

[@soxvo]

Such an inspirational conversation ❤ It felt like a cozy night with sisters - so real and comforting. Charithra has a beautiful mind, soul, and heart which reflects on her sweet smile .. She’s pretty inside & out!

[@mosaicpaint3223]

Love this! That’s why we have diversity and needed more stories

[@ShivaniPauPodcast]

🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽

[@lovesereen]

I love the honesty. You see the person behind the show. Very authentic and relatable. Thank you for sharing!

[@ShivaniPauPodcast]

So glad you liked the episode!!

[@DlitMusic]

I agree with you, it seems very raw and vulnerable! :)

[@samiraosman46]

love listening her to speak and her voice

[@ShivaniPauPodcast]

:)

[@neejflix]

Loved this so very much! So many nuggets of gold in this whole conversation

[@DlitMusic]

Me too! You're right, there's lots of golden nuggets in this conversation.

[@littlebee879]

I love her. She is a liberationist!

[@Ari_diwan]

Wow, I am so happy to see her! Thank you Shivani, I'll be here when we hit a million subs on your podcast 💫

[@ShivaniPauPodcast]

Thank you 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@monishachand5065]

This is such an inspirational podcast, thankyou so much!

[@ShivaniPauPodcast]

Thanks so much for listening 💛

[@passangtsekey5326]

It was very honest conversation ❤❤ Really resonated with some of her experiences.

[@ShivaniPauPodcast]

Thank you so much for watching, so glad you enjoyed it :)

[@iwonaabraham5251]

this was such a real conversation. so so helpful

[@ShivaniPauPodcast]

Thank you so much for watching, so glad it was helpful to you :)

[@moonlightunicorn9181]

Incredible and honest work Shivani! As a brown girl, this episode was hitting so many nails on the head. Really enjoyed this

[@ShivaniPauPodcast]

Thank you so much for watching!!!

[@maryn9167]

Love your podcasts ❤

[@therealer1912]

She is great 😃

[@sainttheresetaylor2054]

I love her so much, instantly related to Edwina in Bridgeton. however I disagree that feminism is about dismantling ALL systems of oppression - though intersectionality is absolutely required, women should always be the centering focus of feminism, as the 'fem' suggests. women should have a space and community that focuses on our unique problems, outside of any surplus identifiers (even the oppressed ones like race), especially when so much misogny exists in other communities, even minority ones and how that divide in allegiance can cause many women to revoke their feminist activism (see : an appeal to traditionalism (aka patriarchal doctrines) in many non-white oppressed communities. in the same way that the 'black lives matter' movement should consider the added bigotry faced by black women in relation to their gender, but will always be focused primarily on the issue of blackness in a racist world, feminism is equally focused on womanhood in the patriarchy (albeit in all its different forms regarding race, class and sexuality etc.). hope that makes sense : I'm basically advocating for intersectionality in all activist movements, without loosing focus of the central, uniting problem.

[@placeholder9462]

You can’t dismantle 1 oppressive system but not the others because they all have the same basis. Patriarchy, Racism, Fatphobia, Ableism, Homophobia are all facets of supremacy culture. None of us are free until all of us are free.

[@toluwaniawe4880]

saw her first in the alex rider tv series, been a fan ever since. It's nice to know more about her

[@lexandthecityasmr]

I am so happy she went after her acting career because nobody could have played Edwina Sharma like Charithra ❤ that role was meant for her.

[@onyinyeodokoro5624]

Such a vulnerable conversation. She’s so articulate and intelligent. As I’m typing this, I’m still listening but I just wanted to respond to what she says about not being satisfied. About thinking being insatiable and asking what the end goal is and not feeling fulfilled. If you ever read this Charithra, i would like to recommend Jesus. Hear me out, please. In Jesus, who loves us beyond what this earth can EVER comprehend, in Him there is complete fulfillment regardless of the accolades or ambitions we pursue or don’t pursue. He alone can fill that void that you speak of. I’m an actor as well, and a very ambitious person too, and so i can say that i can relate😅. I hope you maybe try Jesus? All my love, Onyinye♥️ p.s.. You are PHENOMENAL!!!! I’m a faaaannnn

[@onyinyeodokoro5624]

continuing (as i listen). His Love is UNCONDITIONAL. Omg, I’m so sorry that your family has all these expectations of you that are weighing you down. I’m so sorry and i hope you heal from it and forgive them because they did what they thought was best but also projecting their own insecurities on you. And then, oh yes it would be absolutely a beautiful thing you being a mom, but let me tell you that if you go into being a mum thinking, “oh this will fix everything, this is the end goal, i will feel completely fulfilled now that I’m a mother”, it will NOT. That void will still be there. Please try Jesus😭

[@karynchu]

♥

[@blueskyearthkrish7134]

Whyvshow a random black man and girl when she mentions family ?!

[@delsmontgomery]

yeah it was strange

[@sthetic9197]

For real like- I mean, she's Indian, not black. No offense to black people here

[@Freetheebees]

Thats such an odd thing to point out, and not a “woke” realization as you might think it is.. you need to reevaluate more lol..

[@Lisaa6578]

When you're indian say indian. South asia term will put you in a box. They're already doing this with the term 'Asian'.