Love-ly: Exploring Modern Relationships

Maybe you want kids. Maybe you don’t. Maybe it changes every time you see a cute toddler in the elevator. So how much time do you actually have to figure it out? In this episode, Mehak sits down with Dr. Lucky Sekhon, an OBGYN, infertility specialist, and author of the bestselling fertility guide The Lucky Egg, to separate fact from fear around fertility, egg freezing, and the biological clock. Dr. Lucky opens up about the years she couldn’t picture herself as a mom, and how working in fertility changed her own timeline to have kids. Together, they break down the biggest fertility myths: what actually happens to your eggs after 35, why fertility isn’t just a “women’s problem,” and why IVF shouldn’t be treated as a guarantee. This one isn’t about telling you what to do with your body. It’s about making sure that whatever you decide, you never have to look back and say, “If only I’d known.” Follow Dr. Lucky Sekhon @lucky.sekhon on Instagram and @drluckyegg on TikTok. Pick up The Lucky Egg wherever books are sold and listen to Call Your Doctor wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted by: Mehak @whathemehak on TikTok Producer: Saadia Khan and Shei Yu | Content Writers: Mehak | Editorial Review: Saadia Khan | Sound Designer & Editor: Lou Raskin | Love-ly Theme Music: Lou Raskin | Other Music: Epidemic Sound | Cover art design: Josephine Chai | Executive Producer: Saadia Khan Please share the love and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts & Spotify to help more people find us! Don't forget to subscribe! 🔗 Subscribe to Hyphenly, our newsletter with hot takes, heartfelt stories, and all the feels of living in between cultures. Come for the nuance, stay for the vibes. 💌 Share your thoughts: [email protected] Follow us on IG @lovelythepod & @immigrantlypods Twitter @Immigrantly_pod TikTok @immigrantly Subscribe to our Immigrantly Uninterrupted Channel for ad-free listening Love-ly is an Immigrantly Media Production For advertising inquiries, please email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At 18, Kayden Kross walked into a strip club to save a pony from a meat auction. Twenty years later, she’s behind the camera, making films about the part of sex nobody can see. Mehak sits down with Kayden, an award-winning writer and director and the founder of the studio Deeper, in a week when the Cornell case has left many of us angry and wondering why so few people seem surprised. Kayden explains why consent changes moment to moment, why a yes from five seconds ago doesn’t carry forward, and what the kink community gets right with its rule that a no can never become a yes mid-scene. She traces her path from a Northern California megachurch to Penthouse, Vivid, and the director’s chair, and opens up about the end of her 14-year relationship with a fellow performer. She also explains why copying what you see in porn means performing for a ghost audience that isn’t even in the room. They also get into why performers lose their second language once they’re aroused, what “fawning” really means, and the one thing that still makes her gag behind the camera after two decades. This is a reminder that consent isn’t a box you check only once, and lying about why you’re in the room is the least attractive thing you can do. Follow Kayden @thekaydendaily on Instagram, find her studio work at deeper.com, and visit gasplighting.com for details on the Gasplighting gallery event, October 15–17 in downtown LA. Hosted by: Mehak @whathemehak on TikTok | @whathemehak_ on IG Producer: Saadia Khan and Shei Yu | Content Writer: Mehak | Editorial Review: Saadia Khan | Sound Designer & Editor: Lou Raskin | Love-ly Theme Music: Lou Raskin | Other Music: Epidemic Sound | Cover Art Design: Josephine Chai | Executive Producer: Saadia Khan Please share the love and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts & Spotify to help more people find us! Don’t forget to subscribe! 🔗 Subscribe to Hyphenly, our newsletter with hot takes, heartfelt stories, and all the feels of living in between cultures. Come for the nuance, stay for the vibes. 💌 Share your thoughts: [email protected] Follow Us: 📸 @lovelythepod on IG | @immigrantly on TikTok Love-ly is an Immigrantly Media Production. For advertising inquiries, email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heather Orr and her partner had spent six months asking each other whether their relationship was worth fighting for. She asked if they could start therapy. He said they were fine the way they were. That was her answer. In this episode, Mehak sits down with Heather Orr, a lawyer, activist, and creator known online as @hope_peddler, to ask: how much of what we want in love is actually what we want, and how much is the life we were taught to want? Heather explains why, as a lawyer, she will never let a court have a say in her romantic life, why she thinks most of the centering of men happens once couples move in together, and why she hasn't dated in four years. She and Mehak get into patriarchy vs. matriarchy, whether women are naturally more egalitarian or just socialized that way, and Heather's theory that hetero relationships are where women's life force gets handed over. Mehak doesn't agree with everything, and that's the point. They land somewhere hopeful: after all this deconstruction, could we be headed for a love renaissance? Follow Heather @hope_peddler on Instagram and @hope_peddler on TikTok. Hosted by: Mehak @whathemehak on TikTok | @whathemehak_ on IG Credits: Producer: Shei Yu | Content Writer: Mehak | Sound Designer & Editor: Lou Raskin | Love-ly Theme Music: Lou Raskin | Other Music: Epidemic Sound | Cover Art: Josephine Chai | Executive Producer: Saadia Khan Subscribe & Listen to Love-ly on Apple Podcasts — $3.99/month or $34.99/year for ad-free episodes and more. Leave a Review: If you enjoy the show, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts & Spotify — it helps more people find us. 🔗 Subscribe to Hyphenly, our new newsletter with hot takes, heartfelt stories, and all the feels of living in between cultures. Come for the nuance, stay for the vibes. 💌 Share your thoughts: [email protected] Follow Us: 📸 @lovelythepod on IG | @immigrantly on TikTok Love-ly is an Immigrantly Media Production. For advertising inquiries, email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yasmin Elhady's back, and she’s bringing the truth bombs! In her return to Love-ly, attorney, comedian, and Muslim Matchmaker host Yasmin Elhady sits down with Mehak for a hilarious, heartfelt, and brutally honest conversation about modern love. From dismantling silly dating “icks” to exposing overconfidence, Yasmin shares how self-trust, spirituality, and the “three A’s” attraction, admiration, and adoration shape healthy relationships. She opens up about protecting your energy, setting standards without closing your heart, and why confident women attract exactly the kind of partners they deserve. If you're in DC, go check out Yasmin's new show, Not Exactly a Nun, at Woolly Mammoth Theatre — six performances only, September 25th through October 4th. Follow her @yasminelhahahady for tickets and updates. Hosted by Mehak @whathemehak on TikTok and @whathemehak_ on Instagram Produced by Saadia Khan and Shei Yu. Written by Mehak. Theme music, sound design, and editing by Lou Raskin. Other music by Epidemic Sound. Cover art design by Josephine Chai. Executive Produced by Saadia Khan. Please share the love and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify to help more people find us. Don't forget to subscribe. Follow us on IG @lovelythepod and @immigrantlypods. Twitter @Immigrantly_pod. TikTok @immigrantly. Subscribe to our Immigrantly Uninterrupted Channel for ad-free listening. Love-ly is an Immigrantly Media Production. For advertising inquiries, please email [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices