Zeeta Maharaj
Zeeta Maharaj is a Montreal-based podcaster, vlogger, and plus size model.
Zeeta is born to communicate. She feels alive when she gets to connect people and ideas. She is energized by highlighting the stories and accomplishments of others. When she was 15, she co-founded a Montreal-based, music magazine, Vinyl. Since then, her experiences and interest in media, music, art, and culture has not waned. Be it print, radio, TV, vlog and now podcast, you can hear how much she loves to connect with her audience.
Being a conduit - a connector - is when she feels most "on purpose". This is what her gift is best served for; offering messages of triumph, hope, learnings through failures — her own and others — to inspire, connect, and unite. Getting the opportunity to interview people and bring these great stories to the forefront brings her great joy.
She has always kept the importance of highlighting diversity and inclusion, maybe that is one of the reasons she became a plus size model. Representation matters and seeing bodies in all shapes and sizes including all forms of beauty is an important value Zeeta Zeeta prides herself on.
“Beauty is not one dimensional and never has been. I am thrilled that we are now celebrating our differences and not ostracizing women and men alike for not conforming. We are all perfectly imperfect.”
This is part of Zeeta's fiber, her foundation, and you can hear it with every interview. She brings forth an honesty and authentic approach that really draws you in. This is so refreshing and one of the best parts of her interviews.
Her podcast It’s About Time provides the freedom and space to ask the types of questions she wouldn’t be able to in conventional media; to highlight amazing successes from ordinary people who have been able to be their own kind of extraordinary.
“I believe everyone has a really interesting story to tell. It’s About Time gives me the chance to highlight that we are all connected through a common shared human experience.”