Currently Cringing

Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO of Nvidia after 33 years, and the story has everything: a $4 trillion company, an alleged Chinese spy named Alice Huang, reported affairs inside the office, and a CFO handed the mop and bucket. On this episode of Currently Cringing, Anisha Ramakrishna walks through the Nvidia scandal from the New York Times report that started it to the board pushing him out. She explains why Colette Kress stepping in as interim CEO is a textbook glass cliff, the term Michelle Ryan and Alex Haslam coined in 2005 for women who are handed the top job once...

Single during cuffing season? Before you mistake a good reservation for a good relationship, we need to talk.

This week on Currently Cringing, Anisha Ramakrishna tackles dating burnout, holiday pressure, returning exes, and the question your group chat forgot to ask: do you actually like him, or does he just book a beautiful hotel?

From AI-written flirting and overanalyzing texts to being the only single friend at dinner, we’re talking modern dating in your 30s and 40s, wanting a relationship without settling, and why being single doesn’t require a defense at Thanksgiving.

Grief doesn’t cancel your DMV appointment. Your AC can leak, your driver’s license can expire, and apparently three slices of pie now require a financial consultation.

This week on Currently Cringing, Anisha Ramakrishna talks about life at 42 after losing her grandfather, the unexpected emotion of renewing her driver’s license, and writing a cookbook that he was alive for the beginning of.

Plus: therapy for grief, eldest daughter guilt, people pleasing, imposter syndrome, and learning to set boundaries without feeling like you’ve disgraced six households. Anisha also starts reading the Bhagavad Gita, im...

I’ve been drinking through my grief, and before anyone panics, this is not a cry for help. It’s a dinner invitation. In this episode of Currently Cringing, I talk about how cooking, cocktails and entertaining have become a second form of therapy while I grieve, because when you have ten things on the stove, your intrusive thoughts have to make a reservation. My New York storage unit finally landed in Miami, and an eight-foot folding picnic table and six metal chairs sent me straight back to my twenties, hosting eight-course dinners for ten to fifteen people in an a...

I haven’t recorded in a while, and this episode is the reason why. My grandfather, my second parent, my biggest fan and the man named as my guardian on my birth certificate, is no longer with us. This is the most personal episode of Currently Cringing I’ve ever made. I talk about grief in a way I didn’t understand until I lived it: the panic attacks, the sleepless nights, and the moment I realized I couldn’t get through this alone. I cover anticipatory grief and why it didn’t prepare me at all, my fear of prolong...

My husband offered to help with my pelvic floor therapy. “Babe, I’m board certified.” Yes, but a vascular surgeon is not qualified to direct this department. Please respect the hiring process.In this follow-up to the vulvodynia episode, Anisha tells you what finally healed her: pelvic floor physical therapy. After a month in bed that no doctor could fix, two of her best friends stepped in: a physician and her seven-months-pregnant wife, a pelvic floor physical therapist. They picked up their baby’s crib, opened their practice at 7:30 on a Sunday night, and treated her for three hours for free. He...

For years, I thought my hip pain, migraines, joint pain, periods, mattress problems and increasingly bizarre symptoms were completely unrelated.

Then my vagina caught on fire.

Not metaphorically.

This summer, I went from traveling through Italy to barely being able to walk. My legs were throbbing, my feet felt like bricks, my vulva was burning, and somehow everything looked completely normal. I saw doctors and specialists, had MRIs and bloodwork, tried acupuncture, went down terrifying medical rabbit holes—and eventually found myself learning words I had somehow made it to 42 without ever he...

What happens when the life you pictured for yourself doesn’t happen the way you thought it would, or doesn’t happen at all?

This week on Currently Cringing, we’re talking about the quiet grief nobody really prepares you for: grieving an imagined future. The wedding, the baby, the house, the career, the friendship, the version of yourself you were certain you’d become, and the invisible timelines that somehow became deadlines.

We get into ambiguous loss, milestone birthdays, fertility and aging, social media comparison, family and cultural expectations, the 2 a.m. spiral a...

Listeners heard something disturbing in the background of my podcast. Then one listener in France messaged me with an even stranger detail: she thinks the mysterious voice is speaking French.

There is only one problem. I record this podcast alone. In my house.

So naturally, my husband and I opened the doors, lit the sage and Palo Santo, respectfully asked whoever—or whatever—is apparently guest-hosting the podcast to leave, and absolutely did NOT schedule a séance. I am trying to have fewer supernatural interactions, not expand the spiritual calendar.

Then...

First, we need to discuss the mysterious noises showing up in the podcast because apparently Currently Cringing now has an unpaid paranormal co-host. I wish I were kidding.

Then we’re getting into something far scarier: why we keep going back to people who already showed us exactly who they are.

If somebody pulls away, let them. If they become weird, cold, inconsistent, confused, “need space,” or suddenly need to focus on healing/their career/their dog — stop providing disaster relief to a situation you did not create.

Because sometimes closure isn’t maturity...

This week on Currently Cringing, one tiny test strand becomes the hero of the entire episode when I discover that Japanese hair straightening could have quite literally made me bald. Two months after a salon owner refused to straighten my entire head, my hairstylist finds the test piece underneath my hair completely broken off. Rejection is protection, ladies — and sometimes it is the only thing standing between you and a Labor Day wig.

Then we need to discuss my latest personality: gardening. Martha Stewart and Ina Garten have successfully convinced me that I should be wandering th...

The Lindsay Clancy trial has officially consumed my life. After five weeks of spiritually attending Massachusetts Superior Court from my laptop, closing arguments are over, the jury is deliberating, and apparently I’m supposed to just… go about my day?

Absolutely not.

This week on Currently Cringing, we’re talking about the Lindsay Clancy trial, Kevin Reddington’s closing argument, the bizarre reality of watching a murder trial unfold live, alternate jurors, the impossible responsibility of a jury, and why trial lawyers are essentially doing Broadway with prison sentences.

Then there’s Patrick...

Get the Degree Before the Ring: Trad Wives, Financial Dependence, and Why Marriage Is Not a Life Plan

This week on Currently Cringing, Anisha realizes her ultimate rich-person fantasy is not a yacht, a private jet, or a house in the English countryside — it is becoming a permanent career student with no professional objective whatsoever. Law school for fun. Art history for dinner parties. Torts in Tuscany. Maritime law on a yacht. University at the Four Seasons.

But the fantasy turns into a sharper conversation about education, women, marriage, money, independence, and the internet’s bi...

The Lindsay Clancy trial is far more complicated than the headline. In this deep dive, we break down what Lindsay actually pleaded, the alleged confessions, postpartum psychosis and criminal responsibility, the forensic and digital evidence, Patrick Clancy’s testimony, her psychiatric treatment, the medical malpractice allegations, and the questions emerging as the trial unfolds.

This isn’t about internet conspiracy theories or declaring a verdict before the jury. It’s about separating evidence from assumption and asking how a mother who repeatedly sought psychiatric help ended up at the center of an unimaginable tragedy.

Plus: the fr...

The month-long Italian birthday extravaganza is officially over—but apparently getting home required one final humiliation.

On this episode of Currently Cringing, we’re leaving Italy for one last day in Zurich, where I’m already on my period, my joints hurt, I don’t feel well, and my definition of sightseeing has become buying exceptional Swiss fruit and cheese and going home. We need to discuss why I barely eat at restaurants in America anymore, why a $150 dinner full of mediocre ingredients no longer excites me, and why at forty-one I would genuinely rather have my close...

Portofino Is Smaller Than Costco & I’m Retiring From Beach Clubs

And just like that, we’ve reached the final stop of our month in Italy: Liguria, Santa Margherita Ligure, Portofino and the Italian Riviera—where the pesto is perfect, the water is crystal clear, and apparently a luxury vacation can still involve fighting a seagull for your smoked salmon.

Anisha gives her completely unfiltered guide to Portofino, Santa Margherita Ligure, Paraggi and Cinque Terre, including why Portofino is spectacular but approximately the size of a Costco dairy section; why she chose the Imperi...

Luxury isn’t always luxurious.

Anisha celebrates her husband’s 40th birthday on the coast of Sicily, only to discover that paying thousands for a five-star beach club still means fighting for lounge chairs, overhearing strangers’ family drama and questioning what “luxury” even means anymore.

She shares her brutally honest reviews of Taormina, European beach clubs, why privacy is the ultimate luxury, the truth about reserving sunbeds, and the funniest family meltdown she has ever witnessed from six inches away.

Then it’s off to Puglia, where she explains why hiring a driver beats...

Anisha doubles down on her most controversial luxury-travel opinion: the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection is not a yacht. It is a very expensive cruise, and for the same money, you may be better off chartering privately in Croatia, Turkey, Montenegro or Albania.

Then the Italy trip continues from Sardinia to Sicily, where Anisha breaks down her personal travel philosophy: the destination matters, but so does the hotel, the bathroom, the flight time and whether getting to the beach requires four hours in a car and a spiritual breakdown.

She reviews Taormina’s most famous luxury hotels, ex...

Anisha’s luxury Italy trip continues in Sardinia, where a supposedly restorative vacation includes a medication-free migraine experiment, a secret Hilton hotel in Porto Rotondo, a high-speed RIB boat ride through Costa Smeralda, a catastrophic Day One period, and a surreal confrontation with a mystery family and their intimidating bodyguard in Porto Cervo.

First, Anisha explains why she briefly decided to stop taking allergy medicine, migraine medication, NSAIDs and triptans in an attempt to discover who she was “without pills,” only to learn that pushing through a migraine is not bravery, wellness or personal growth. It is simply...

This episode starts before we even leave Miami, when a Japanese hair straightening appointment almost leaves me bald and a hairstylist unknowingly saves my entire trip. From there, we’re off to Milan for my husband’s 40th birthday before making our way to Sardinia, one of the most expensive luxury destinations in Europe.

Along the way, we talk about what luxury travel actually looks like when the Instagram filters come off.

I share why Milan is so much more than fashion, visiting Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper, the disappearing art of histor...

I disappeared for three weeks, and today is the first day I’ve truly felt like myself again.

Something unexpected happened after I got home, and one day I’ll share the full story. I’m just waiting until I’m completely on the other side of it because I want to tell it with the perspective it deserves. For now, we’re rewinding to where it all began.

Welcome to Part 1 of my Italy series.

In this episode, I’m taking you behind the perfectly curated Instagram photos from our luxury trip through...

This week on Currently Cringing, Anisha spirals from booking a Japanese hair straightening appointment to questioning the meaning of life after smashing an ant.

After years of avoiding pools, oceans, humidity, and basically any activity involving joy, she’s finally surrendering to the fact that she married a man whose love language is water. Which means boats, beaches, Italy, and accepting that some other woman’s dream is your personal nightmare.

We discuss:

• Why curly, frizzy hair has controlled far too many of our decisions

• The shame of becoming the pers...

After six years of discussing dating disasters, ghosting, heartbreak, situationships, and every form of romantic chaos imaginable, we finally made it to the wedding.

In this episode, Anisha recaps an unforgettable four day Indian wedding weekend celebrating friend of the show Aditya and his bride. What begins as a simple wedding recap quickly turns into a saga involving thousands of dollars of missing outfits, last minute wardrobe disasters, a return to her mother’s closet, a Sephora appointment that nearly went off the rails, prom season chaos, airport exhaustion, and an unexpected lesson about trusting the pr...

By now you've heard about the MV Hondius — the luxury expedition cruise ship that departed Argentina on April 1st (an omen), visited some of the most remote islands on earth that haven't even been fully rendered on Google Maps, and returned with three deaths, eleven confirmed cases of the Andes strain of hantavirus, and passengers currently being monitored in biocontainment units at Emory University Hospital and the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The CDC has classified it a Level 3 emergency. The incubation period is 42 days. And people in the comments were asking if there were still cabins available.

This week on Currently Cringing, Anisha spirals after an Instacart delivery leaves her kitchen smelling like weed and her fridge full of radishes instead of beets. From broccolini confusion and emotionally disappointing blueberries to why fruit in America tastes chemically depressed compared to Thailand, Slovenia, Japan, and Shanghai, this episode becomes an unexpectedly hilarious breakdown of modern decline, grocery delivery culture, luxury produce, and why nobody can identify vegetables anymore.

Plus:

• the truth about exotic fruit influencers lying about “chocolate pudding fruit”

• why cruise ship outbreak TikToks feel like dystopian theater

•...

This week Anisha is recording with what she describes as a tiny Victorian child mining coal directly behind her left eye, which is honestly a metaphor for everything we're about to discuss.

It started with Chanel putting Babitha Mandava in what looked like a CVS run outfit at the Met Gala while Zendaya got architecture, narrative, and cinema. One Instagram comment later and the internet decided Anisha had personally dissolved Greenpeace. The discourse was unhinged. The think pieces were unhinged. The reaction videos were extremely unhinged. And somehow Anisha still plans to wear Chanel, which apparently...

If your effort is exceeding your contract, this episode is your intervention.

This week Anisha is back with the unfiltered truth on dating red flags, situationship accountability, and why effort should always match the terms of the arrangement. First up: the baby and toddler profile photo as a personality tell — and why it predicts chaos every single time. Then, Megan Thee Stallion and Klay Thompson — a masterclass in what happens when you cook Michelin-star Thanksgiving dinners for a man who has not secured any position. Girlfriend package is not wife package. Stop giving benefits on a free...

What started as a casual snack run almost ended in a full Victorian tragedy. Anisha breaks down the staircase incident heard round the household — silky lounge pants, airborne guacamole, knees meeting wooden edges, and the humbling reality that the most dangerous thing in your life is your own comfort wear. Then things get interesting. The appliances keep breaking in a brand new house, a medium sold a neighborhood home by clearing the original owners' spirits from the premises, and Anisha's cleaning lady independently confirmed there is something in the house — with a "babe" that softened the blow considerably. We disc...

In this episode of Currently Cringing, Anisha covers the full spectrum of modern female existence and refuses to apologize for any of it. We begin with a wellness confession: for the past year she has been drinking a homemade electrolyte potion of water, baking soda, lemon, and mineral salt, and it genuinely helps. If you drink water all day and still feel like a dehydrated ghost, this one is for you. Because sometimes the issue is not quantity, it is whether the water actually stays.

From there we get to the thesis of the episode: women...

You were fine… and then you replied.

This episode is about that one text that sends you into a full spiral. The “hey stranger,” the casual re-entry, the message that should’ve been ignored—but wasn’t.

We’re talking about why men come back like nothing happened, why it works, and why we participate even when we know exactly how it ends.

Also: loneliness. Real loneliness. Not the cute version—the kind that makes bad decisions start to feel reasonable. The kind that makes you consider texting someone you already know is...

If you've ever cried over someone who said "let's just see where this goes" for six months, this episode is your official debrief.

In today's episode of Currently Cringing, we're treating your heartbreak like a quarterly earnings report — because most people aren't heartbroken after a breakup. They're confused investors who never ran the numbers. Anisha breaks down the full Breakup ROI Report: what you're actually grieving (hint: it's four things, not one, and some of them were fictional), how to actually get over it ranked by effort to outcome ratio, why your gut knew before your brain ad...

In this episode of Currently Cringing, Anisha recounts the chaotic chain reaction that started with what was supposed to be a relaxing international trip and somehow turned into a full blown logistical nightmare.

After barely escaping the IndiGo airline flight delay crisis in India, Anisha returns to Miami thinking life will finally calm down. Instead, she and her husband begin the exhausting process of moving into a 3,000 square foot house with nothing but a childhood bed, an antique desk, and 35 unopened boxes.

What follows is a month long parade of home problems, technicians...

Act IV and V of my Golden Triangle chaos tour: Delhi to Agra to the Taj Mahal, featuring a 3 hour road trip, ITC Mughal marble bathrooms, squat toilets trauma, and the constant fear of shitting myself at one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

In this episode I break down what it’s actually like to drive from Delhi to Agra, why the Taj Mahal is stunning but logistically hellish, and why nobody talks about the bathroom situation. We revisit my early 2000s family trip memories, the infamous Indian Chinese restaurant in Agra, and my si...

In this three act travel tragedy, I attempt the iconic Golden Triangle route with a precision itinerary and the confidence of someone who has never met Air India. We start with Dubai airport purgatory, a four hour delay, and a plan to hit the Golden Temple in Amritsar at 4 AM for Amrit Vela, the Palki Sahib ceremony, and the First Hukamnama. I explain what those actually mean in normal person English, because nobody prepares you and I refuse to fake spiritual literacy on a podcast.

Then Act II: India’s air quality enters like a villain wi...

At 41, I just rented a house five doors down from my mother.

I spent an entire year living with my parents (who have full staff, let's be clear) while house hunting in Miami. My dad said "you're 41, it's time to go." My mom said "this is your home forever." And I realized something nobody talks about: the luxury isn't the money—it's the TIME. The ability to say "not perfect enough" for a full year without consequences.

Then we pivoted from a Northern Lights disaster to Oman—and discovered why Muscat is the most...

"You are not a brand. You are a person. And real people are messy, multifaceted, and occasionally dress like sandcastles."

In this high-velocity episode of Currently Cringing, Anisha exposes the Aesthetic Industrial Complex—the cultural machine turning women into "shippable" Amazon packages. From the "Clean Girl" slicked-back bun that’s a ticking time bomb for traction alopecia to the "Oat Milk" wardrobes that have us all cosplayng as dairy products, we’ve reached peak Pinterest Psychosis.

Anisha reveals the exact moment she almost made a $2.5 million mistake—considering having a child just to use them as...

If the holidays feel heavy, this episode is for you.

On today’s episode of Currently Cringing, Anisha sits down with Dr. Rachna Buxani — licensed mental health counselor with 23+ years of international experience across the United States, Dubai, and the Cayman Islands, founder of Buxani Counseling Care, and author of the groundbreaking new book “Unseen: A Therapist’s Reflection on a Daughter’s Journey Through a Narcissistic Father’s Shadow.”

Whether you’re a millennial navigating complicated holiday dynamics, someone healing from a chaotic childhood, or just trying to understand the patterns you keep repeating i...

Why My Family Cancelled Christmas India vs America Elder Care Sex and the City Lies Fashion Taste and Viral Politics

In this unhinged November episode of Currently Cringing Anisha unpacks everything from the end of her family Christmas tradition to the emotional reality of aging parents and grandparents in America. After her parents decide to spend the holidays in India and her husband is working she realizes she will be home alone for the first time ever during Christmas. That sparks a brutally honest look at what family aging and tradition really mean as her grandparents...

In this episode, Anisha Ramakrishna (Bravo's Family Karma) delivers a sharp, witty manifesto on decentering everything that's been running your life without permission: your age, men, family expectations, and society's outdated script.

What You'll Learn:

✨ Decenter Your Age - Why being over 35 isn't a deadline and how to stop apologizing for your timeline

✨ Decenter Men - How to stop editing your life around male validation and build a life that men are invited into, not built around

✨ Decenter Your Family - Why your parents' Boomer advice is literally useless (the wo...

What do climbing Mount Everest and robbing the Louvre have in common?

Absolutely nothing—except human delusion, designer jackets, and the desperate need to flex.

In this week’s Currently Cringing, Anisha spirals into the two most unhinged headlines of the year: the Louvre jewelry heist (aka the most French crime ever committed—scooters, tiaras, and a four-minute smash-and-grab), and the Everest traffic jam of influencers risking frostbite for a selfie caption that reads “grind never stops.”

From pink diamonds to oxygen tanks, this episode dives into:

💎 The psychology of why people...