09: Love Is Better Than Perfect with Reema Zaman

For the perfectionist, there is nothing more valuable or important than perfection.

In this episode Reema Zaman, an award-winning writer, speaker, actress, producer, and podcast host and I discuss how perfection ruled our lives and how we overcame it. Hint: it has something to do with loving yourself.

Reema and I met on the first day of our freshman year at Skidmore College. I will never forget watching her see her breath for the first time. I didn’t understand how she’d never seen that before. Then again, I had never been to Bangladesh, Hawaii, nor Thailand.

We’ve known each other for almost twenty years weaving in and out of each other’s and our parallel lives.

Reema is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir I Am Yours and the forthcoming dystopian novel Paramita. She is the head writer, creator, and an executive producer on the TV show SNAP. She is the host of the podcast Joy & Revolution with Reema Zaman. A renowned keynote speaker, Reema has been featured and published in the New York Times, VICE News, Dear Sugars, Vogue, Salon, and other noteworthy platforms. Born in Bangladesh and raised in Thailand, Reema lives in Portland with her rescue chihuahua, Fia the Fierce. You may find them both on Instagram and Facebook, and at www.reemazaman.com.

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