Dr. Sayantani DasGupta | A Foot in Three Worlds

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  So many of us have so many different interests, so many directions we would love to go down when we think about how we want to contribute to the world, make our dent in the universe.

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  What if you didn't have to choose between two loves?

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  Well, that is one of the things I explore with my guest today, Saiyantani Dasgupta.

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  So, growing up the daughter of indian immigrants, she fell in love with writing at a really early age, but later on found herself in med school, then eventually becoming a pediatrician, and then moving on to become a professor, teaching med students and other professionals about the power of listening and other people's stories in creating really tremendous outcomes.

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  All the while, though, she was writing and eventually publishing a memoir about her time at Johns Hopkins, then even collaborated with her mom on a collection of bengali folktales before creating her own fantasy series designed to not only capture the imagination of young adults, but also solve a problem that she saw her kids loved adventure series, you know, things like Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, but none of them featured a main character with brown skin.

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  So she created her own heroine and her own world.

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  Now, with three books out in that series, including the serpent, secret game of start, and the chaos curse, and a New York Times bestseller in the mix of those, she splits her time between the world of medicine, teaching, and writing all the time focused on reconnecting people with stories that allow them to see themselves as they are in the world.

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  So excited to share this conversation with you.

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  I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.

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  Fascinated by the way that you have developed a life and a living in different worlds and somehow made them, at least from the outside looking in, seem to work together.

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  But let's take kind of a step back in time.

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  First.

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  You grew up, from what I understand, I guess, starting out in Ohio, but then ending up in New Jersey.

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  Yes.

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  Where in Ohio were you, actually?

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  So I grew up in Columbus, Ohio, right outside of Columbus, Ohio.

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  My parents had immigrated from Calcutta, India, to Cincinnati before I was born.

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  My father came for graduate school, and then I grew up in Columbus, Ohio.

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  In the seventies when there weren't, you know, a ton of immigrants necessarily.

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  There were some.

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