Today’s conversation is one that will stay with you long after you’ve listened — the kind of episode you’ll want to share with someone who’s on the edge of their next chapter. In this episode, I sit down with Keka Dasgupta, award-winning brand strategist, TEDx speaker, gratitude researcher, and the founder of The Art of Life-ing. After years in corporate branding, Keka shifted her focus to something deeper — helping people understand that our most powerful brand is not what the world sees, bu...
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Today’s conversation is one that will stay with you long after you’ve listened — the kind of episode you’ll want to share with someone who’s on the edge of their next chapter. In this episode, I sit down with Keka Dasgupta, award-winning brand strategist, TEDx speaker, gratitude researcher, and the founder of The Art of Life-ing. After years in corporate branding, Keka shifted her focus to something deeper — helping people understand that our most powerful brand is not what the world sees, bu...
Today’s conversation is one that will stay with you long after you’ve listened — the kind of episode you’ll want to share with someone who’s on the edge of their next chapter. In this episode, I sit down with Keka Dasgupta, award-winning brand strategist, TEDx speaker, gratitude researcher, and the founder of The Art of Life-ing. After years in corporate branding, Keka shifted her focus to something deeper — helping people understand that our most powerful brand is not what the world sees, bu...
The strongest thing you can lift is yourself. “Awareness is the greatest agent for change.” — Eckhart Tolle This isn’t a story about fitness — it’s a story about awakening. What began as a 12-week “transformation challenge” became a lifelong practice of strength, awareness, and gratitude. A journey that is about so much more than aesthetics. It’s about honouring the gift of time… and a body that can still move. This episode is a reminder that transformation begins the moment you wake up to wh...
Some of the most powerful stories we hold are the ones we don’t think we have. The ones found not in grand triumphs or dramatic moments, but in the quiet, ordinary places of life. What if it's a story that could change someone else’s life? In this episode, Tamara shares three stories that reveal what it truly means to own your journey — from a friend who found her voice, to a client who met her future self, to her own lesson in radical ownership when life changed out of the blue. It’s a...
Sometimes life brings people into our path in the most unexpected ways. In this episode of Becoming Lotus, I sit down with Jennifer Brouwer—founder of Whilewoods Retreats Though Jennifer and I had never met, our lives seem to be running in parallel: both of us are passionate about elevating women, transformation, and creating spaces for personal growth. Today we talk about reinvention in midlife, what it means to rise because of your story (not in spite of it), and how unlikely connecti...
What would happen if you paused today and asked your 75-year-old self for advice? In this first-ever guest episode of Becoming Lotus, Tamara sits down with Rachel Lapensee for a conversation that is nothing short of beautiful—filled with wisdom, perspective, and heartfelt stories. Together, they explore the lessons that only time and lived experience can bring—about purpose, resilience, joy, and what really matters most. This episode is an invitation to reflect on your own life: how you’re l...
Midlife isn’t a crisis—it’s a doorway. In this episode, Tamara O’Shaughnessy reframes menopause and midlife as a portal into awakening, reinvention, and possibility. A powerful reminder that it’s never too late to create the next evolution of you. Midlife isn’t a crisis—it’s a portal. In this episode, Tamara O’Shaughnessy reframes menopause and midlife as a doorway into awakening, possibility, and reinvention. This is a season where we can step more fully into our power, peel back old roles...
In this debut episode of Becoming Lotus, Tamara O’Shaughnessy shares a powerful vision of infinite potential and introduces the woman who inspired it all—her mother, affectionately called The Velvet Steamroller. A story of resilience, legacy, and the reminder that it’s never too late to begin again. Inside each of us lives a golden seed—our infinite potential. No matter our age or what we’ve been through, it’s never too late to plant it and begin again. In this first episode of Becoming Lot...
What if a simple shift in perspective could change everything? In this episode, Tamara O’Shaughnessy explores the power of reframing—choosing to see challenges through the lens of gratitude, growth, and possibility. Discover how positivity, practiced with intention, can shape the way you live and who you become. What if the way you frame your experiences could completely change the way you live? In this episode of Becoming Lotus, Tamara O’Shaughnessy explores the power of reframing—choosing...
Today’s conversation is one that will stay with you long after you’ve listened — the kind of episode you’ll want to share with someone who’s on the edge of their next chapter. In this episode, I sit down with Keka Dasgupta, award-winning brand strategist, TEDx speaker, gratitude researcher, and the founder of The Art of Life-ing. After years in corporate branding, Keka shifted her focus to something deeper — helping people understand that our most powerful brand is not what the world sees, bu...
