ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
RAW with UMA is a podcast and living document of becoming unapologetically human. Hosted by leadership and reinvention strategist Uma Thana Balasingam, it features honest conversations with people redefining success, power, and self-trust in life’s messy middle. From Careerquakes™ to midlife transitions, this space explores the unspoken truths of identity, ambition, love, and meaning. This podcast doesn’t conclude, it holds space. Becoming yourself isn’t neat. It’s raw. And it’s real.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
42 minutes
Video podcast
English
United States
33 episodes
since March 2, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Why are women still routinely giving birth on their backs when other positions may reduce trauma, pain and unnecessary interventions?
In this episode of Raw With Uma, I speak with obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Ondřej Šimetka about active birth, vertical birth positions, water birth and what women s…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
What happens when AI does not eliminate your job overnight, but quietly starts taking over one task at a time? The real question for many professionals is, “What am I now if AI can do half my work?”
In this episode of Raw With Uma, Uma speaks with technology leader and psychology researcher Radha R…
Everyone was taught the same corporate bargain: keep your head down, work hard, build experience, and eventually you will be rewarded. But what happens when decades of hard work no longer guarantee safety?
In this episode, Uma sits down with executive career strategist and TEDx speaker Loren Greiff…
What happens when the career and identity you spent decades building suddenly disappear?
For Uma, leaving corporate life meant going from managing an 800-person team and receiving 300 emails a day to complete silence and realizing she no longer knew how to introduce herself without her title.
Reco…
Everyone expects the corporate world to be ruthless, but what if the secret to doubling a two-billion-dollar business is simply creating a space where people can be themselves? In this unique cross-generational episode, Uma flips the script and invites her 21-year-old nephew, Kyren, to interview he…
Uma’s death clock app tells her how long she has left to live. But surviving to 95 isn’t the goal—living with vitality, muscle, and a sharp mind is. Terrified that most common health advice is wrong and hoping to avoid the physical decline she witnessed in her parents, Uma brings her raw data and d…
If you've had a hormonal blood panel and been told everything is fine, you may have been asking your doctor for the one test that cannot actually diagnose perimenopause. Dr Foong explains why — and what the right diagnostic approach looks like.
Uma Thana opens this episode by doing something most w…
Everyone expected her to be angry. What Tawana actually felt was harder, and she explains exactly why disappointment hits differently than rage when institutions betray you.
Tawana is Meta's APAC lead, a senior Black American woman who came to Asia expecting the familiar challenges of race and gend…
Menopause may have been the best thing to happen to her.
In this episode, senior banking executive Sunday joins hosts Uma and Jingjin for one of the most disarmingly honest conversations the show has aired. Sunday talks about how menopause removed the social constraints that had been slowing her do…
As an ophthalmologist, Claudine kept noticing something that her patients' other doctors were missing. The retina doesn't lie - systemic disease shows up there first. She'd refer patients for follow-up and watch nothing happen. So she went and studied functional and anti-aging medicine herself, and…
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