Positive Solace with Attika Choudhary
Welcome to Positive Solace with Attika Choudhary, the award-winning journalist and host of this twice-nominated podcast.
Positive Solace is a sanctuary for honest conversations, quiet transformation, and intentional healing. Born in a moment of global stillness in 2020, this space was created to offer light in uncertainty, a place for reflection, connection, and renewal.
Here, vulnerability is not weakness but a doorway. Each unscripted episode welcomes voices from across cultures and experiences, sharing stories rich with wisdom, resilience, and heart. Blending warmth with depth, this is where comfort meets clarity and insight never overwhelms.
Rooted in purpose, Positive Solace challenges narratives and stereotypes while uplifting a community working toward a more inclusive, conscious world.
This is more than a podcast. It’s a quiet invitation to pause, to breathe, and to remember who you are and who you're becoming.
Come as you are. Leave lighter, wiser, and more deeply connected to yourself and to the world.
Positive Solace with Attika Choudhary
The Afghan Dreamers with Roya Mahboob
In this episode of Positive Solace: Women of Vision, Attika talks to Roya Mahboob, the CEO of the Digital Citizen Fund that helps students through digital education. In fact Roya is championing the cause of education for girls and women, and works with the Afghan government to create STEM schools where Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics are made available to all students.
Roya started the group of robotics specialists known as The Afghan Dreamers, who also join Attika in this podcast.
This six-girl robotics team made up of teenagers between 14 and 18 years old, has already won awards. When challenged by the Herat Governor to help with the Covid-19 crisis, they created a ventilator from old car pieces that should hit the market soon costing around $600.
Some ventilators sell at upwards of $50,000.
Roya is keen to break down cultural barriers and prejudices that question the value of women being educated. She encourages girls to pursue careers in engineering and robotics, a suggestion bucking the social trend and unheard of in Afghanistan until recently.
Attika talks to Roya and the girls about the successes they’ve had with their work, their experiences growing up with the unrest in Afghanistan and all the challenges that brings. What lies ahead for these dreamers? Listen to the podcast now available on all platforms.
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