Behind-the-Show with Heetal Bhatia

This month, we’re starting a new feature series--BTS or Behind-the-Show. The series will introduce our listeners to their favourite podcast host and perhaps unveil some interesting things about them you may not already know.

For our first BTS, we’re talking to Heetal Bhatia, the co-host of The Two Vegans, one of the first podcasts from the Amaeya Media Network. In response to our rapid-fire questions, some of Heetal's answers were the expected level of quirky, others quite unpredictable! And we'd love to be a fly on the wall when she has her vegan dinner with Kim Jong-Un, wouldn't you?

If you could, what pseudonym would you choose for your podcast? Why?
The inconvenient truth

Your profession (aside from being a podcast host)
Strategic Marketing Analyst

Top three things you love about podcasts?
Entertainment anywhere, anytime.
Choice of podcast durations.
No visual distraction

What do you dislike about podcasts?
Hard to focus on a non-visual talk for a lengthy period.

What three words best describe your podcast host personality?
Honest, sarcastic, funny

What’s your current favourite podcast?
The Dropout

What would your #1 advice be for someone who is looking to start a podcast?
Content is key. Followed by editing. Make sure you have your technical skills in place or have someone who does.

If you could have a (socially distant) dinner with one person right now, who would it be? What would both of you eat?
Kim Jong-Un. Vegan food.

What gets you out of bed each morning?
My cats. Every day.

What’s your guilty pleasure?
Junk food anytime, anywhere.

What is the first place you would travel to once the restrictions are lifted? Why?
The Netherlands. I am moving there soon.

What’s your video meeting attire?
Don’t turn on video under any circumstances!

What are you currently binge-watching on Netflix?
Sherlock

If you were to write a book about your life, what would its title be?
Surrounded by idiots (already exists but in my words)