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Singing in Hindi and English, finding comfort in my roots.
Playing the Avengers on the piano, thinking about how “simpler” is sometimes just another word for earlier.
Late nights working on our documentary, Running Out of Breath, sharing what we’ve learned, one conversation at a time.
Sophomore at Phillips Exeter Academy. Tracing the quiet questions beneath the obvious ones.
Launching Lived Words Podcast. Not the first to struggle. Not the last. Not alone. We matter most when we choose to help each other.
Setting an intention. Eating Fire. And owning the journey ahead.
Watching my brain’s alpha waves and wondering what it takes to reach theta.

This isn’t advice … it’s lived experiences.

“I don’t host Lived Words because I have life figured out. I host it because I’m in the middle of figuring it out, just like the people listening.

I’ve learned that growing up isn’t about having answers. It’s about finding the language to name what you’re feeling, and realizing you’re not alone in it.

Lived Words is my way of having those conversations out loud, with honesty, curiosity, and care.

I’m Yuvan, and I’m part of the generation living this.”

Because … meaning isn’t found, it’s lived.

Lived Words

Most podcasts begin at the ending
after the lesson, after the glory, after the storm has passed.

But what if we began inside the storm?
Inside the moment when growth still trembles,
when healing still hurts,
when the story is still writing us back.

Lived Words listens there
in the pauses between courage and confusion,
in the sentences we don’t finish,
in the words we think we understand
until life gives them new meaning.

These are not stories of success
they’re stories of becoming.
Because the most honest truths
aren’t told in hindsight.
They’re lived
one word, one interaction, one conversation at a time.