The Brave Table with Dr. Neeta Bhushan
Grab a seat at The Brave Table for unfiltered conversations about all the unpredictable moments we face on our journey through life—the raw, the real, the messy—and how to overcome them and thrive.
This is your oasis for the next season of who you are becoming—where you defeat your imposter syndrome, ditch comparing your life to others, embrace the unconventional, and recognize your evolution and expansion.
Join host Dr. Neeta Bhushan, a former dentist turned author, serial entrepreneur, and mama of two, for weekly episodes on strengthening your mental and emotional fitness so you can face challenges with grace and grit.
Let’s get brave as we navigate this human experience together with lots of love, new perspectives, and a dose of laughter along the way.
Recent Episodes
Nov. 9, 2026
Why You Keep Choosing the Same Painful Love (And How to Finally Stop) with Dr. Tamanna C.
If you keep ending up in the same relationship with adifferent face, this episode is for you. I'm joined by Dr. Tamanna C., karma coach and psychic,who helps people understand the patterns quietly running their love lives. Here's the truth most people don't talk about: You're not unlucky in love, you're repeating a lesson. In this conversation, we unpack karmic loops, the motherwound, and why toxic relationships can feel so magnetic while peaceful ones feel boring. And why no amount of dati
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Nov. 4, 2026
“The Woman I Was Died on February 7th”: Dr. Laura Berman on Grief, Motherhood, and Crying Out Loud
In February 2021, Dr. Laura Berman's life changed forever when she lost her 16-year-old son, Sammy. The woman she was before that day would never be the same. But through unimaginable grief, she began discovering what it really means to heal, to cry without shame, and to carry love forward after loss.Laura is back at The Brave Table with her new book, Crying Out Loud. We talk about the pain of losing a child, why grief doesn't get smaller but we grow around it, the healing power of tears, and ho
Oct. 26, 2026
How to Make Peace with Self-Doubt, Grief, and Being the 'Chill,' Low-Maintenance Woman — with Dr. Ellen Vora
A decade ago, Dr. Ellen Vora was six months pregnant when her mother died suddenly. Weeks later, lying on an acupuncturist's table, she heard: "I have a message coming through from your mom." She's not a psychic. She's a Yale- and Columbia-trained psychiatrist, and that moment cracked open everything she thought she knew about medicine, grief, and what it means to trust what you can't prove.Ellen is back at The Brave Table with her new book, Season of the Witch: A Psychiatrist's Case for Magic.
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Oct. 19, 2026
You're Not Anxious, You're Inflamed: A Brain Doctor's Guide to the Busy Brain, Perimenopause & Healing — with Dr. Romie Mushtaq
The Busy Brain Explained: Dr. Romie breaks down exactly what a Busy Brain is — why anxiety, ADHD, and insomnia aren't three separate problems but one root cause rooted in neuroinflammation — and why women of color are uniquely at risk.The South Asian Women's Health Gap: A real, culturally specific conversation about why South Asian women are dismissed ('you're just stressed'), the MTHFR methylation gene (1 in 4 women of melanin carry it), Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and why 'labs came back fine' is
Oct. 12, 2026
You're Not Broken. Your Body Is Storing What You Never Felt
Stored stress, trapped emotions, and fascia: why your body still won't settle when you're doing everything right. If you live with chronic tension, cold hands, a gut that won't calm down, or the same relationship pattern on repeat, this conversation is for you. Garry Lineham, co-founder of Human Garage and creator of Fascial Maneuvers, is back at The Brave Table. He spent decades in chronic pain before learning to work with his own body, and today his free and pay-what-you-can programs reach peo
Oct. 5, 2026
Everyone Said It Was Stress: One Year After My Breast Implant Removal (The Labs, Symptoms & Questions I Wish I'd Asked Sooner)
Hey Brave Soul 💛 Every October I think of my mom. She died of breast cancer when I was 16, and I promised myself I would never put my body in harm's way. So how did I spend 13 years with breast implants, and years explaining away symptoms that didn't add up? In this solo episode, a little over a year after my explant surgery, I'm sharing the rashes and nerve pain, the labs that came back "normal" except one, everything I tried when everyone said it was stress, and the question that finally mad
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