The Ginni Show

From the Outside In: Maaria Mozaffar on Writing Laws, Breaking Barriers, and Refusing to Quit

April 21, 2026

Have you ever felt like the problems in your community are too big, too broken, or too political for any one person to solve? Maybe you've watched something unfair play out—in a school, a hospital, a courtroom—and thought helplessly, ‘Someone should really do something about that.’ But you have no policy experience, no platform, and no idea where to start. Today, Ginni Saraswati sits down with Maaria Mozaffar, a lawyer, policy maker, and the woman behind landmark legislation like the Halal ...

She Walked Out of a War Zone and Into Mindfulness: Mitra Manesh on Finding Peace Amid Chaos

October 15, 2025

Stillness can feel impossible in a world that rewards constant motion. Before 2020, most of us were sprinting through life—our schedules packed, our minds overstimulated, our silence drowned out by screens. But what happens when we finally stop? This episode is a throwback, and was recorded in 2020, however the themes are still just as relevant today. It invites you to explore the question of stillness with Mitra Manesh, mindfulness thought leader and founder of the Innermap app. Drawing fro...

From Chronic Overwhelm to Cool and Calm with Erica Diamond

October 08, 2025

Have you ever found yourself snapping at someone for no real reason? Something small just agitates you and you overreact. Someone cuts you off in traffic. Or jumps the line in the grocery store. Under normal circumstances, you’d just let it go. But lately, these incidents are lighting a fire inside, taking you from 0-10 in 0.03 seconds. Deep down, you know the problem isn’t the person cutting you off on the road or at the store. The problem is that your chronic state of overwhelm is tak...