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Life Experiments - 19 Episodes

Solo travel, spirituality, culture-centered nutrition, relationships, and the strange corners of a life lived with intention. Come here when the question on your mind is bigger than your job title. 19 episodes inside.

Ep 76Aug 27, 2025

How To Become A Professional Astrologer & Spiritual Scientist - w/ Poonam

Why Astrology is More Than Fortune-Telling — A Raw Conversation with Poonam Dutta What happens when you put a professional astrologer and spiritual scientist in the hot seat and ask the hard questions? In this episode of the Ready Set Do Podcast I sit down with Poonam Dutta — an expert in the Vedas, Sanatan Dharma, and Vedic astrology — for a multi-faceted, super-raw conversation that cuts past clichés and goes straight to the reasoning behind belief.

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Ep 62May 22, 2025

How To (Plan &) Optimise For A Vacation In India (First-time Travel Experiences From An American's POV In FIVE Indian Cities) - w/ Beni

Travel stories get boring fast when they only exist to confirm what the traveler already thought. This one is better because the surprise is the point: what India looks like through the eyes of someone seeing it properly for the first time, and what that says about expectation, culture, and the stories we drag around before we arrive.

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Ep 47Feb 11, 2025

How To Be A Not-Expert At Life (An Eight Year Old's POV) - w/ Ved

Ved keeping with our theme of learning from somebody that’s just two steps ahead instead of an expert, my goal with this episode is to explore the mind and musings of a young boy - and how the timeless optimism of childhood can indeed be discovered by anyone of any age. By the end of this episode, you will walk away with a perspective on why the child-like curiosity is the greatest treasure we possess, and yet something we all discard as we grow this episode we also witness the Conventional Mind in Robert Greene's Mastery, the concept of the Conventional Mind describes how societal pressures, practical demands, and conformity erode the innate openness and curiosity we possess as children.

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Ep 46Feb 5, 2025

How To Be A Spiritual Hindu Guru In The Digital Age (Chief Lineage Authority Of A 17,000 Years Old School Of Yoga POV) - w/ Guru Pashupati

Most people talk about yoga like it is either wellness content or a neat philosophy deck. This conversation goes into the messier middle: what happens when a tradition gets flattened for the internet, how someone actually becomes a guru, and why criticism of Hinduism does not fit into the tidy little boxes people like.

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Ep 27Oct 3, 2024

How To Kickstart Your DJ Career (Self-Taught DJ PoV) - w/ Mayya

Originally from Moscow, Russia, Mayya recently graduated from a Masters of Arts degree from DePaul University but for the purposes of this episode - we’ll be deep-diving into how Mayya kickstarted her DJ career from scratch. We go over the onset of Mayya’s musical pursuits, how she learnt mixing - which is the fundamental skill every DJ must learn, and how she landed her first gigs.

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