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Her Side of the Stories

with Asal Zara

Education

Frequency: 1 episode/6d. Total Eps: 24

Her Side of the Stories is a cinematic long-form podcast about extraordinary women — and the lives that made them who they are. Hosted by Asal Zara and filmed in the forests of Ibiza, each conversation goes beyond what happened to explore what was happening inside her while life was happening outside. Childhood. Family. Love. Ambition. Identity. Loss. Success. Shame. Reinvention. The contradictions we rarely hear once the public story has been polished. Guests range from globally recognised women to extraordinary people you may never have heard of. The life doesn’t need to be relatable. The fe

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🇺🇸 USA - selfImprovement
25/08/2026
#90
🇬🇧 Great Britain - selfImprovement
09/04/2026
#94
🇬🇧 Great Britain - selfImprovement
08/04/2026
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A 55 year long Trans Journey to Truth & Identity | “I’m a Woman.” — Actress la georgea

Season 1 · Episode 2

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 • Duration 01:09:53

“I’m a woman. There’s no easy way to say it. ” It took her 55 years to get those words out of her mouth.

In this episode of Her Side of the Stories, Asal Zara sits down with actress la georgea for a conversation about identity, truth, and what it really means to finally be yourself.

georgea was already a well-known actor. A life built for decades, a career that was already established and a marriage of 30 years..

From the outside everything made sense and seemed to be going really well. But underneath, something didn’t.

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This is a conversation about living a life that looks right while quietly knowing it isn’t.

georgea shares what it was like growing up in a deeply conservative environment, carrying something she couldn’t name, couldn’t express and couldn’t share with anyone. Perhaps even thought she never will be.

From a very young age, she knew. But knowing and actually living it are two very different things.

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We go into:

— What it feels like to grow up without ever feeling fully safe to be yourself

— The impact of shame, guilt, and silence over decades

— Building a life, a career, and a relationship while hiding a core truth

— The complexity of love when two people are trying to understand something neither fully sees yet

— The moment she finally said the words out loud

— And what it meant for her and for the people around her

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There’s a part of this conversation that stays with you: the idea that you can live an entire life and still not feel fully seen.And the fact that untill you choose to live as your true self, there will be always an undercurrent of unhappiness.

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We also explore something rarely spoken about openly: What happens after you step into your truth.

Is it fear? Is it freedom?

georgea describes it as finally being able to feel life without a wall in between.

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Because sometimes… becoming yourself means everything else has to change.

This is Her Side of the Stories.

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Regan Hillyer: She Built Millions… Then Everything Fell Apart (Twice)

Season 1 · Episode 1

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 • Duration 01:11:14

She built Millions… Then lost it all. Rebuild everything and then, did the same happen again?

In this episode of Her Side of the Stories, Asal Zara sits down with Regan Hillyer for a conversation that goes far beyond manifestation, success, or the life people think they see online.

Regan is known as one of the leading voices in self-mastery and manifestation.

But this conversation isn’t about what you see on stage. It’s about what was happening underneath.

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We talk about growing up without ever seeing conflict and how that quietly shapes the way you love, communicate, and set boundaries later in life.

We go into her early struggles with control, identity, and self-worth and the moment everything shifted.

From building her first busines, to losing everything… To sleeping on a couch, and starting again from nothing.

But at the heart of this conversation is something many people will recognise:

being in something that looks right…

but doesn’t feel right.

A long-term relationship, a shared life. With a strong shared vision.

But after all, things may not have been what they seemed.

We explore:

— What it feels like to outgrow a version of your life

— The subtle ways we disconnect from ourselves in relationships

Jessica-Jane Stafford: “I Always Felt Different…” on OCD, ADHD & Identity

Season 1 · Episode 3

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 • Duration 01:11:19

“I always felt different.”

In this episode of Her Side of the Stories, Asal Zara sits down with actress and model Jessica-Jane Stafford — for a conversation that goes far beyond what people have ever come to learn about her.

Jessica opens up about growing up painfully shy, never quite feeling like she fit in, and constantly adapting herself to the people around her — becoming a different version of herself depending on who she was with.

At the heart of this conversation is something deeply misunderstood:

OCD.

Not the version people joke about.

But the reality of intrusive thoughts, obsessive loops, anxiety, and the mental exhaustion that comes with it.

Jessica shares what it actually feels like to live inside that experience — from constant overthinking to social anxiety, from needing control to feeling overwhelmed in everyday situations.

We also explore:

— What it’s like to feel like an outsider, even in a room full of people

— Growing up without understanding your own mind

— The impact of people-pleasing and mirroring others

— Navigating environments that don’t feel safe

— Motherhood, and recognising similar patterns in your children

— And the journey of finally starting to understand yourself later in life

Why Do I Feel Lonely Even When I’m Never Alone?

Season 1 · Episode 3

Sunday, August 23, 2026 • Duration 06:30

Feeling Lonely Even When Surrounded by People

#loneliness #emotionalconnection #feelingseen

Why do you feel lonely even when you have friends, family, children, messages, and

people around you? Sometimes loneliness has less to do with being alone and more to

do with feeling unseen. You might spend your whole day talking, helping, organizing,

and being needed while still feeling as though nobody truly knows what is happening

inside you. Please visit our website for more information:

http://www.hersideofthestories.com

In this direct-to-camera reflection, we look at emotional connection, why strong women

often become the people everyone depends on, and why saying “I’m fine” for years

sometimes leaves little space for others to know us. Feeling unseen in relationships,

constantly adjusting yourself around other people, or being loved mainly through the

roles you play can leave you feeling disconnected even in a full room.

This reflection explores:

- Why being surrounded is different from feeling seen

- Why capable women sometimes feel deeply lonely

- How hiding parts of yourself affects emotional connectionWhy opening up starts with one honest sentence

- How identity and finding yourself connect with belonging

- Sometimes the question is not how many people are around you. The question is where

Why Women Learn to Put Everyone Else First | Professor Claire Delahaye

Season 1 · Episode 22

Tuesday, August 18, 2026 • Duration 37:19

Why do so many women grow up feeling responsible for keeping everyone else happy?

Professor of Feminism Claire Delahaye has spent her adult life studying the invisible rules that shape women’s lives. In this conversation, we explore how girls learn to please from an incredibly young age — and how those early messages can follow us into our relationships, motherhood, money, beauty and the way we see ourselves.

We talk about raising girls who can say no, mother guilt, the mental load, weaponised incompetence, beauty standards, women judging other women, and whether you can want equality while still wanting your husband to be a gentleman.

Ultimately, this is a conversation about the things we’ve been taught so early that they can start to feel like personality — and what happens when we finally begin questioning them.

Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side. 🧡

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I Thought I Had Healed. Then Life Tested Everything I Believed | Lauren Burton | Her Side Of The Stories

Season 1 · Episode 14

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 • Duration 01:16:44

Some of the roles we carry through life started so early that we don’t even question them anymore. We just think, this is who I am. I’m the calm one, the strong one, the one who keeps everything together.

But sometimes that isn’t really who we are. It is who we learned to become.

In this episode, I sit with Lauren Burton, an internationally accredited executive coach, business owner and mother, to talk about the patterns that begin in childhood and quietly follow us into adult life.

We speak about people-pleasing, abandonment, numbing, overworking, the need to feel seen, and what happens when life tests everything you thought you understood about healing.

Lauren also speaks about losing her daughter Jasmine during childbirth, and the long process of learning how love, grief and joy can all exist at the same time.

This is a conversation about survival, identity and finding your way back to yourself.

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I Learned To Read The Unseen | But I Still Struggled To Be Seen | Psychic Elaine Mary Collins | Her Side of the Stories

Season 1 · Episode 13

Tuesday, June 16, 2026 • Duration 01:09:17

She could sense what others couldn’t and help thousands of people find answers. But behind the psychic gift was a woman who spent years hiding and struggling to see her own worth.

In this episode, Asal sits with Elaine Mary Collins — an intuitive reader who began psychic development at fourteen and received her first tarot deck from her mother at fifteen.

Elaine opens up about growing up around addiction, violence and instability, and how those early experiences shaped both her sensitivity and the protective patterns she carried into adulthood.

They explore intuition, tarot, mediumship, spiritualism, self-worth, people-pleasing, emotional eating, boundaries and the responsibility that comes with guiding people when they are vulnerable.

Elaine also explains what she senses during a reading, whether psychics are ever wrong, why some people want comfort more than truth and whether everyone has the ability to develop their intuition.

At the end of the conversation, Asal experiences her first taste of a tarot reading — opening an unexpectedly personal conversation about adventure, betrayal, abandonment and the things we think we have already healed.

Elaine Mary Collins is one of the world’s most trusted psychics, with clients ranging from celebrities and CEOs to politicians. For nearly 50 years, people have turned to her for guidance, clarity and insight.

Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.

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Between Family Expectations, Identity & Freedom Freedom | Navine Kumari | Her Side of the Stories

Season 1 · Episode 12

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 • Duration 01:04:36

What happens when you feel like you don't belong anywhere?

In this episode, Navine Kumari shares what it was like growing up between two worlds, saying no to an arranged marriage, losing her father, being blamed by her community, and spending years searching for where she truly belonged.

Born in the UK to Indian parents, Navine grew up balancing tradition, family expectations, identity, and freedom. She opens up about colourism, arranged marriage, grief, losing both parents, motherhood, and the emotional journey of supporting her son when he came out as gay at just 13 years old.

This is a conversation about belonging, courage, acceptance, and what it means to choose your own path without losing your love for where you come from.

Navine Kumari is an entrepreneur, mother, and founder of one of Ibiza's most successful catering companies.

In this episode:

• Growing up between two worlds
• The caste system and arranged marriage
• Feeling different and wanting to belong
• Colourism and beauty standards
• Saying no to the life planned for her
• Losing her father and being blamed by her community
• Grief, identity and finding herself
• Motherhood and unconditional love
• Her son's journey of coming out as gay at 13
• Supporting children through life's challenges
• Losing her mother
• Spirituality, death and letting go
• What happiness means today

If this conversation resonated with you, stay closer and subscribe to our channel 🧡

Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.

The Things She Couldn't Remember Changed Her Entire Life | Katelyn Means | Her Side of the Stories

Season 1 · Episode 11

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 • Duration 01:11:02

What happens when parts of your childhood disappear from memory, but continue shaping your life anyway?

In this episode, Dr. Katelyn Means shares her deeply personal journey through trauma, shame, survival, healing, and recovery.

As a child, Katelyn experienced things no child should have to navigate. What followed were years of trying to make sense of feelings she couldn't fully explain, relationships that repeated familiar pain, struggles with anorexia, medication, perfectionism, and the belief that something was fundamentally wrong with her.

Together, we explore the relationship with her father, the memories she carries, the ones she doesn't, and the impact those experiences had on every chapter that followed.

We talk about shame, about survival mode, about trying to control a body when life feels uncontrollable, about why we repeat patterns and about the long journey from simply surviving to finally feeling safe.

One thing she said stayed with me long after the cameras stopped rolling:

"The absence of memory doesn't mean the absence of experience."

This is a conversation about trauma.

But even more than that, it's a conversation about hope.

Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.

ABOUT DR. KATELYN MEANS

Dr. Katelyn Means is the creator of The Euphoria Effect, a framework exploring the connection between childhood experiences, trauma, healing, and human potential.

FOLLOW DR KATELYN MEANSInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_euphoria_effect/

My Mother Couldn't Save Me | FGM Survivor At 5 | Model & Author Djabu Balde | Her Side of the Stories

Season 1 · Episode 10

Tuesday, May 26, 2026 • Duration 50:26

When Model & Author Djabu Balde was five years old, she was subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM), which she nearly didn’t survive. She was born in a small village in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, and for most of her life she has carried this in silence, until now.

In this episode of Her Side of the Stories, Djabu speaks publicly about her experience for the very first time. About her mother who tried to stop it from happening. About her father who didn’t show up to stop it. About the body she had to learn to live in again, the years of therapy, the fear of being touched, the slow, careful work of reclaiming her own sexuality. And the book she has written so that other girls do not have to live what she lived.

This is a conversation about FGM — but it is also about a mother’s love that crossed an ocean. About migrating to a new country with nothing but a dream. About surviving an abusive home. About becoming a mother herself with an empty fridge and a one-year-old son. About forgiveness, about faith, and about a relentless amount of strength.

Djabu is an actress, model, and now author. Her book is her offering to the millions of girls still subjected to this practice, one every twelve minutes, every day. This is Her Side of the Stories.

Her voice. Her truth. Her side.

FOLLOW DJABU BALDE

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/djabubalde_/

Book: https://www.amazon.es/Entre-dos-madres-Djabu-Balde-ebook/dp/B0H1QJS9LN

FOLLOW HER SIDE OF THE STORIES

YouTube: https://youtube.com/@hersideofthestoriesofficial

Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0NdDte4w6fgcuZZwZH1rpi?si=5u1ARRWURf2ynKa0n3Fe8g

Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/her-side-of-the-stories/id1890695561

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