The Designed Life
Welcome to The Designed Life with Ameera Virani.
A weekly conversation for visionary women who are ready to lead with clarity, live with intention, and rise into their next chapter with both elegance and edge. This show blends soulful wisdom with strategic clarity to guide you home to your Designed Life.
Whether you're navigating leadership, motherhood, midlife reinvention, intimacy, wealth, or wellness, this space offers you belonging, elevation, and the kind of real-talk that reconnects you to who you truly are.
No noise. No perfection. Just you, being seen, held, and called higher.
Episodes
43 episodes
Your Health Is Not What You Sacrifice on the Way to Success. It Is the Success.
When is the last time you felt genuinely good and fully alive in your body? If you’re struggling to remember, this conversation was made for you. Monique Took is a functional health practitioner and researcher who was told at 21 that she would ...
From Med School to Main Stage: What Happens When You Follow the Voice That Says "This Is Not Your Path"
Maybe it got buried under the word practical. Maybe it was that look your parents gave you when you said what you really wanted. Maybe you hid it yourself because the life you were building looked right on paper, even though something inside yo...
The Woman Behind the Title of Mother
You are running the schedule, holding the emotions, managing the chaos, and wondering, probably alone, probably behind a locked bathroom door, if you are doing any of it right. This episode is a love letter to the woman behind the word mom. It ...
Your Life Is a Constellation: Identity, Transition, and the Invitation to Be More Than One Thing
You’ve built a life that looks right on paper, but something in you keeps whispering that it doesn’t quite fit anymore. You’re holding everyone together and wondering who’s holding you. In this conversation, Ameera sits down with Stefanie Holmd...
The Real Resume: Why Your Hardest Chapters Are Your Greatest Qualification
A note before you listen: this episode contains references to violence, grief, loss, and financial hardship. It is also one of the most honest conversations I've ever had on this show. If you're in a place where those topics feel heavy righ...
What Happens When Good Women Make More Money | Money Energy, Beliefs & Rewriting Your Blueprint with Binu Dhindsa
What if the reason money isn’t flowing has nothing to do with your strategy and everything to do with a story you’ve been carrying since you were ten?In this episode, Ameera sits down with Binu Dhindsa, spiritual mentor, certified hypnot...
The Infinity Loop: How to Receive, Steward, and Release Money Without Fear
You have more than enough by any reasonable standard and you still don’t feel wealthy. The gap between what you have and what you feel is not a flaw. It’s the distance between someone else’s definition of wealth and your own. In this follow-up ...
The Life You Prayed For But Can't Find Yourself In with Uniyme Oguta
She built the life she wanted. The career, the family, the role, the respect. And then one morning she woke up and thought: this is everything I asked for, but I cannot find myself in any of it.Unyime Oguta is a speaker, author, and lead...
She Bet on Herself Before Anyone Else Would
What would you build if you stopped waiting for permission?Krystal Jugarap knew she was meant for entrepreneurship since high school, but the path there looked nothing like she imagined. A career in fashion design was shut down by cultur...
The Money You Inherited: How Your Childhood Story Is Running Your Life
You check your bank account and there’s enough, but your body doesn’t believe it. The knot in your stomach, the white-knuckle grip on every dollar, the feeling that it could all disappear tomorrow - that didn’t start with your income. It starte...
Midlife Isn’t a Crisis - It’s an Initiation With Guest Kena Paranjape
What if the chapter you’ve been quietly bracing for, is actually the one that brings you home to yourself?In this episode of The Designed Life, Ameera Virani is joined by Kena Paranjape, founder of Supernova, a community devoted...
What Women Carry -She Holds More Than She Is Given Credit For
This International Women's Day solo episode is a love letter to every woman who has been giving generously to everyone around her and has quietly left herself off the list. Ameera moves through the invisible labour women carry in a single ordin...
True Grit: Strength, Self-Trust, and Building a Body That Supports Your Life
Health is a relationship you invest in, and strength isn’t just about what you lift, it’s about what you’re willing to claim.In this episode of The Designed Life, Ameera Virani sits down with Kalish Morrow, founder of ...
Timeless: How to Create Time Freedom by Releasing What Doesn't Align
In this insightful solo episode of The Designed Life, life and business design mentor Ameera Virani reframes everything you thought you knew about time management and why more optimization is not the answer.Drawing from her own experienc...
Saying Yes to Yourself: Confidence, Community, and Women’s Golf with Lindsay Knowlton (Iron Lady Golf)
Episode SummaryWhat happens when you stop waiting to feel “ready” and start saying yes anyway? In this episode, Ameera sits down with Lindsay Knowlten, Founder + CEO of Iron Lady Golf, to talk about confidence, community, and the sur...
Designing a World From Love, Not Fear
In this deeply reflective solo episode of The Designed Life, Ameera shares a powerful message inspired by her time in Lisbon, Portugal - reconnecting with family, honouring legacy, and witnessing a culture rooted in presence, connectio...
From the Ashes, a New Life Emerged with Carly Ottaway
Episode SummarySome moments don’t just change your life… they change who you are.In this episode of The Designed Life, Ameera Virani sits down with Carly Ottaway -storyteller, author, creative leader, ...
Rewriting Your Story with Jamie Vandernock
In this episode of The Designed Life, Ameera Virani sits down with Jamie Vandernock, founder of Vander Creative Co. and host of the Rewrite podcast, for a powerful conversation about identity, intention, and what it really takes to choose a new...
No One Is Coming: Reclaiming Your Power and Personal Agency
In this solo episode of The Designed Life, Ameera explores what it really means to reclaim your power, time, and personal agency.For many accomplished women, life looks full and successful on the outside, yet there’s a sense of ...
The Limitless Life - with Brenda Johnston
In this powerful and expansive conversation, Ameera Virani sits down with Brenda Johnston, a subconscious strategist and energy mentor for high achieving women, to explore what it truly means to design a limitless life.Brenda shares her ...
More Than a Word or a Goal: Designing Your Year with Ethos
As the new year begins, many of us rush to set goals, choose a word of the year, and map out what’s next, but true growth doesn’t always start with doing more. It starts with who you are being.In this solo episode we explore the concept ...
The Patterns That Shaped Your Year (And How to Use Them)
As the year comes to a close, many of us feel a quiet pressure to move quickly, to plan, set goals, and decide what’s next. In this special year-end reflection episode of The Designed Life, Ameera invites you to slow down before rushin...
Profit, Peace & Power: Designing a Financially Secure Business at Any Stage with Vanessa Bowen
In this powerful and deeply grounding conversation, Ameera sits down with Vanessa Bowen, Chartered Professional Accountant, Master NLP Practitioner, and founder of Mint Worthy Co. Vanessa blends practical financial strategy with mindset, energe...
When You Choose Yourself: A Story of Truth, Courage & Alignment with Celeste Pennington
In this deeply moving and soul-stirring conversation, Ameera sits down with writer and transformational mentor Celeste Pennington, a woman who rebuilt her entire life from the inside out.From walking away from her 9–5, sell...
The Subtle Signs You’re Wealthier Than You Think
In this grounding and uplifting solo episode, Ameera breaks down a practical, approachable wealth-building ritual that anyone can start today: the daily practice of noticing your money miracles.She explores how abundance shows up in subt...