Basnet is a social worker, beauty pageant winner and management consultant. She was crowned Miss Nepal Universe in 2021 and founded the Liberated Scholarship Program in 2016.

Basnet's Podcast Picks:

Stuff You Should Know

This is a podcast and video series by the information and entertainment organisation HowStuffWorks. Started in 2008, this podcast has over 2,000 episodes released to date.

I love this podcast because I get to learn facts about some day-to-day things that I would otherwise overlook. I wouldn’t even be curious about how some of the things covered in the podcast but learning about them is interesting nonetheless.

Rocket by Relay FM

Hosts Brianna Wu and Simone de Rochefort bring fun tech stories to you every week through Rocket. Over 400 episodes of the podcast have aired since its inception in 2015. Each episode of this podcast runs from an hour to an hour and a half.

As a woman working in the tech industry myself, I enjoy tuning into this podcast run by women to stay up-to-date with the hottest tech gossip of the week.

Not Past It by Gimlet

Not Past It is a weekly podcast, airing every Wednesday, produced by the digital media company and podcast network, Gimlet Media. Hosted by Simone Polanen, the podcast covers things that happened that very week in history and how that impacted humanity. Started in 2021, the podcast has over 90 episodes released to date.

I really like Not Past It’s narration. This is another cool podcast you can listen to for fun history facts.

Gangster Capitalism

Started in 2019, the Gangster Capitalism podcast is hosted by Andrew Jenks. To date, three seasons of the podcast have come out—each one focusing on a different topic. The first season covered the 2019 college admission scandal in six episodes, the second covered National Rifle Association in eight episodes, and the third on Jerry Falwell Jr. and Liberty University also in eight episodes.

I really enjoyed learning about the US college admission scandal of 2019 in its first season and binge-listened to it.