"I’ve been able to build a career for myself I never imagined possible - a career I didn’t even know could be a career - sex education and sexual pleasure are so important to me - that to be able to make it my life’s work to try to enable greater access to information and tools for more informed, more pleasurable experiences, for hopefully millions of people, is extremely fulfilling".

Leeza Mangaldas is India’s foremost pleasure positive content creator, author of "The Sex Book: A Joyful Journey of Self-Discovery", and founder of delightful intimacy products brand, Leezu’s. Given how shrouded in stigma sex is in India, Leeza started creating sex education content on YouTube and Instagram in 2017 with the intention to normalize conversations around sexuality, sexual health, gender, pleasure, and the body. Her videos reach millions of young people around India and the world, everyday. She launched her book in 2022 and then her brand in 2023 to provide tangible tools and resources to her community as an extension of her vision for a more sexually informed, more pleasure filled world. 

Leeza is a recipient of The Pleasure Project’s Pleasure Fellowship, and was named Sexual Health Influencer of the Year at the Cosmo India Blogger Awards in 2022- the first year they introduced this category. She has also been named one of GQ’s Most Influential Young Indians in 2021 and 2022, and received a Golden Mike award for Best Podcast for The Sex Podcast, her Spotify Exclusive Hindi Sex Education Podcast in 2022.

Leeza spent her childhood in Goa, went to boarding school in Kodaikanal, and then to college in New York City on a scholarship at Columbia University. She graduated magna cum laude with a BA in English and Visual Art with a focus on gender and sexuality in 2011.

Follow and learn more about our episode guest and check out Leeza’s digital Sex Ed content here:

Instagram: instagram.com/leezamangaldas
Youtube: youtube.com/leezamangaldas1
Brand: leezus.com

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