Lessons Learned with Komal

About Lessons Learned with Komal

Lessons Learned with Komal is a place to explore life's greatest lessons. The ones we've learned, and those we are still in the process of learning. Episodes are a mix of interviews and personal reflections from Komal. Lessons Learned is a space for you to chew on life's lessons, big and small, and hear from the people we admire most in the world.

Publisher

Komal Minhas

Category

society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Sept 2019

Latest episode

4 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

68 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Oct 2026

   Giving Women PTSD Is Part Of The Plan (How We Survive) | Audio Essay 04

   Content warning: This episode includes discussion of rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse, PTSD, and gender-based violence. Welcome to this week's Lessons Learned: Audio Essay -- essays on ambition, reinvention, and building a life worthy of you, written and read by me, Komal Minhas! What does sexual violence take from us long after the violence itself is over? In this essay, I reflect on sexual assault, rape culture, PTSD, misogyny, and the long-term mental health toll of gender-based violence. Prompted by the news and conversations this week about sexual assault and institutional accountability, I found myself revisiting my own experience of rape nearly two decades later—and the ways trauma can continue to shape our capacity, relationships, work, nervous system, and sense of safety long after an assault. I also share what helped me navigate a deeply triggering week: therapy, movement, boundaries with social media, difficult conversations, trusted relationships, journaling, and recognizing when witnessing becomes retraumatization rather than useful awareness. This is an essay about believing women, survivor healing, trauma recovery, women’s mental health, and reclaiming the parts of ourselves and our lives that violence tried to take from us. YOUR WEEKLY PROMPT: What care do you most need today and this week? How can you give that to yourself? Is there something you need to share with someone you love? Who and when will you reach out to them? LET'S PLAN TOGETHER! Each month, paid members of my Lessons Learned community on Substack meet with me for a 75-minute facilitated journaling and planning salon. We reflect, write, and work through the same four planning prompts each month, and decide what deserves our time and action for the month ahead. Thanks for listening! JOIN THE PLANNING SALONS: https://lessonslearnedwithkomal.substack.com/about (https://lessonslearnedwithkomal.substack.com/about) READ THE ORIGINAL ESSAY: https://lessonslearnedwithkomal.substack.com/ (https://lessonslearnedwithkomal.substack.com/) LET'S HANG OUT ON IG: https://www.instagram.com/komalminhas/ (https://www.instagram.com/komalminhas/)

2. 

   27 Sept 2026

   Listen If You're Scared Your Life Is Too Small | Audio Essay 03

   JOIN THE PLANNING SALONS: https://lessonslearnedwithkomal.substack.com/about READ THE ORIGINAL ESSAY: https://lessonslearnedwithkomal.substack.com/ LET'S HANG OUT ON IG: https://www.instagram.com/komalminhas/ Welcome to this week's Lessons Learned: Audio Essay -- essays on ambition, reinvention, and building a life worthy of you, written and read by me, Komal Minhas! As the Fall sprint continues, I feel disconnected from the pace of the people on my feed. This is a personal 'winter' for me, lots of inner work, preparation for our next round of IVF, and a deliberate slowing down and 'shrinking' of life and work. Sometimes the season we're in is the one we truly need, and embracing that can help us lock into the gratitude of the life we've actually deliberately chosen. Let's dive into periods of regrouping, and what future comebacks are built from. Can't wait to hear what you think. YOUR WEEKLY PROMPT: In a personal winter: How could strengthening your little life help you show up better for your big life when it’s time to? What do you love about your little life? What could you appreciate more? In a personal summer: How can you better appreciate the big season you’re in? What support from your little life do you need right now to keep thriving? LET'S PLAN TOGETHER! Each month, paid members of my Lessons Learned community on Substack meet with me for a 75-minute facilitated journaling and planning salon. We reflect, write, and work through the same four planning prompts each month, and decide what deserves our time and action for the month ahead. Thanks for listening!

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   13 Sept 2026

   Surrender to What's Actually Working | Audio Essay 02

   JOIN THE PLANNING SALONS: https://lessonslearnedwithkomal.subst... (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUM4Zm9rU1RTU0VKMURDODM4cTFNZDBLLXdpYnxBTl9pYzRmQnFGUTRhY0VxcHFZSzZfbFI5LTQyTU9CbE5EUWtDOHdXR2ZyTEFkT2pYZUszMDRqUG1wS0hnTDQxTTJQV25hdzlVM3pSN1U1OGdNRk1FNm5tbHVicmgzUXdIQlR1&q=https%3A%2F%2Flessonslearnedwithkomal.substack.com%2Fabout&v=ffLB7OsG_8c) Welcome to this week's Lessons Learned: Audio Essay! Essays on ambition, reinvention, and building a life worthy of you, written and read by me, Komal Minhas! I've journaled by hand almost everyday of the last 18-months. I finish a journal every eight to nine weeks, and as I finished my most recent one, I ended up writing a letter of gratitude to the version of me who spent those weeks implementing the plans and habits to finally meet this version of me. I am calmer, stronger, more boundaried, physically healthier, better slept -- I built habits and took actions I had dreamed about, but wasn't convinced I'd actually get to again. But here I am. It didn't take some epic 'ah-ha', it just took good friends, self-trust, and a willingness to keep going day after day. In this audio essay, I explore why I've come to believe that planning is actually an act of self-love. YOUR WEEKLY PROMPT: What if planning isn't just about productivity, but about loving the journey of walking towards your future dream self? What would change if you approached it in this way? LET'S PLAN TOGETHER! Each month, paid members of my Lessons Learned community on Substack meet with me for a 75-minute facilitated journaling and planning salon. We reflect, write, and work through the same four planning prompts each month, and decide what deserves our time and action for the month ahead. Thanks for listening! READ THE ORIGINAL ESSAY: https://lessonslearnedwithkomal.subst... (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUM4Zm9rUlhTVjQ4REVxeThZQnpJcjFxckZKTHxBTl9pYzRjZW9hWVRoelhaaUl2RWtxbzI5SWwzTkRwU2EtRVpsLUdZQjRmMS1Ed21PQUJ2OF9QZFBOc2NWQ1VVelBCWmNKSE5MNm9JdnVzUzhEdl9fckJCQ0VKQjQwUEgyRzFa&q=https%3A%2F%2Flessonslearnedwithkomal.substack.com%2F&v=ffLB7OsG_8c) LET'S HANG OUT ON IG: http://www.instagram.com/komalminhas (http://www.instagram.com/komalminhas)

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