International Podcaster Dr Shahnaz Ahmed… ANDREW:
The author, Andrew Segal, talks to St. Louis podcaster and creator of Living A Life Through Books, Dr Shahnaz Ahmed, about writing and her favourite authors. Shahnaz’s podcasts are about a life-changing journey of starting, sustaining, and learning from the habit of reading.
I see you have a great many hidden talents...tell us about your career and how you manage to intertwine your very busy life with being a podcaster.
it sounds oxymoronic. How does one schedule time for fun and their own interests, but in today’s world, I feel, if I don’t put what I want to do on my calendar, it doesn’t get done and my time gets filled with things I perhaps don’t want to do or worse yet, just gets wasted.
SHAHNAZ: I am a paediatric dentist by profession. I opened my practice about 11 years ago and although I only work there 3 days a week, they are long 12 hour days. I have to be high energy and cheery with the children all the time and, being an introvert, it can be draining at times. One day a week I also teach paediatric dentistry as a clinical faculty member at ATSU dental school here in St. Louis. I feel it very necessary to protect “my” time when I get home. For me, I like to unwind with silence and my own thoughts. I love to read books and process the information in them. Also, I read a lot of selfhelp/motivation books and they have helped me tremendously in helping me understand my time constraints in life and provided me with some tips on managing my personal and professional life. It’s a matter of scheduling time for myself. I know
I try to adhere to my schedule so I can keep track of who to interview, when to edit that interview and when to upload it. My weekends are spent with juggling all my podcasting and blogging tasks, not to mention laundry and housekeeping. Of course, I have to find time in between all this to totally decompress with a book! Ha-ha! ANDREW:
Do you remember your Eureka moment when you thought about starting a podcast? And who you would like to book first.
SHAHNAZ: Oh Goodness! It’s funny, because when I started my podcast, I didn’t even think that doing an interview was something that would happen.
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