The Founder of Unstoppable Woman Wasn't Always Unstoppable | Shailja Saraswati

Unstoppable Woman with Shailja Saraswati · Sep 9, 2026 · 40m

For years, Shailja Saraswati has asked the questions. In this episode, for the first time, she answers them.

She grew up in a household where the written word was almost a religion, and where she learned early to observe far more than she ever said out loud. That pattern followed her into her first job — where she describes freezing on stage, and crying in a washroom after feedback she took straight to heart because, at the time, her title and her identity weren't separable.

Long before any of it had a name, she was already a seeker — shaped by spiritual leaders like Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji…