Inspire Someone Today
Episodes
194 episodes
E183 | Certainty Is a Trap | Rhea D'Souza
Certainty Is a Trap ft. Rhea D'SouzaSixth Anniversary Season · Inspire Someone TodayRhea D'Souza has spent nearly three decades inside the messy reality of organizations and leadership — and has spent most of th...
E182 | Blind Spots To Big Bets | Shrinath V
In this episode of Inspire Someone Today, Srikanth sits down with Shrinath V — product strategist, startup coach, Google Developer Expert, and the writer behind the Substack Blind Spots to Big Bets — for a conversation that refuses to le...
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E181 | The Inspired Leader | Anil Sachdev
Episode 181 — The Inspired Leader ft. Anil SachdevAnil Sachdev wrote his life's mission statement at 19. He is the Founder and Chairman of the School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL), founded Eicher Consultancy Services and Grow Tale...
E180 | How Many People Are Better Because They Crossed Your Path ? | Priya Vishwanathan
What makes someone feel truly at home — in a hotel, a homestay, or their own life? For this 6th-anniversary episode, Srikanth sits down with Priya Vishwanathan, who gave 35 years to the Taj and IHCL, helped build the ama Stays &am...
E179 | Relevance is the New Job Security | Jack Madrid
A résumé can look inevitable in hindsight, but the human story is usually messier and far more useful. I sit down with Jack Madrid, whose career spans Citibank, Ayala, MTV Philippines, Yahoo, Multiply, and now IBPAP, the organiz...
E178 | From Metal to Minds | Desikamani
Your brain is designed to keep you safe, not to help you change, and that single fact explains why so many goals stall, so many training programs flop, and so many leaders feel stuck repeating the same patterns. We sit down with Desikamani (Man...
E177 | Portfolio Life Series - Wrap Up | Srikanth
If someone audited your life like a portfolio, would it show only a career or would it reveal real compounding assets like health, relationships, curiosity, and courage? I sit with that question and share what changed for me after six conversat...
E176 | What We're Really Investing In | Portfolio Life Series - Anu Seth
Money can be the one topic we avoid the most, even while it shapes nearly every choice we make. We wanted to change that, so we invited Anu Seth, financial coach and co-founder of Paid Forward, for an honest conversation on financial confidence...
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E175| Reinventing without Noise | Portfolio Life Series - M D Ramaswami
He started as a software engineer, tried building systems on the side as a fresher, and once quoted a potential client four motorbikes as payment. That mix of boldness and curiosity becomes the throughline of our conversation with
E174 | Unlocking Potential | Portfolio Life Series - Nikki Barua
Most careers are built like ladders. Nikki Barua argues for something braver: a portfolio life built like a constellation, where every role points back to one central quest. We sit down with Nikki to explore how insatiable curiosity can become ...
E173 | The Gap between Knowing and Living P2 | Portfolio Life Series - Rajiv Vaidyanathan
Part 2 of this 2-part conversation with Professor Rajiv Vaidyanathan.Two invisible forces shape almost every awkward moment, workplace conflict, and relationship argument: we want to feel good about ourselves and look good to othe...
E173 | The Gap between Knowing and Living P1 | Portfolio Life Series - Rajiv Vaidyanathan
You can be smart, informed, and highly motivated and still fail to do the things you swear matter most. That’s not a character flaw; it’s often a pattern. I sit down with Rajiv Vaidyanathan, a professor and researcher in behavioral decis...
E172 | From Curiosity to Career | Portfolio Life Series - Nikita Jain
We sit down with Nikita Jain to talk about Portfolio Life in real time, where career, identity, and values are still being built under constraints. We explore what makes public policy work humane, why implementation fails, and how...
E171 | What Endures | Portfolio Life Series - Rakesh Khar
A polished career can hide a quiet price. When you spend decades in newsrooms, close to ministers, bureaucrats, elections, and crisis, what happens to your inner life when your outer life never slows down?We kick off our Portfolio Li...
E170 | Stories that Stayed | Change Makers Series - Srikanth
Clarity is overrated. The real beginning of change is that uneasy feeling you keep trying to outgrow, ignore, or rationalise away. We close our Changemakers series with a reflective summary of the conversations that lingered long after recordin...
E169 | Breaking The Ice | Change Makers - Palakh Khanna
A single whispered conversation about periods during COVID became a wake-up call and a launchpad. We’re joined by Palakh Khanna, founder of Break the Ice, a youth-led nonprofit that creates spaces for honest dialogue around the topics ma...
E168 | Building the Second Act | Change Makers - Archana Dutta
What if the life you want begins the moment you give yourself permission to start again? We sit down with Archana to trace a quiet, insistent nudge that grew into a full second act—one grounded not in escape, but in intention. She opens up abou...
E167 | Responsibility before Results | Change Makers - Manoj Krishnan
Grades get the spotlight; the child gets the shadow. We sit down with Manoj Krishnan, founder of the Compass Team, to unpack a different way of helping students thrive—through comprehensive assessments that look at emotional health, cognition, ...
E166 | When Care Calls | Change Makers - Bhavana Issar
What if love isn’t enough when care gets real? We sat down with Bhavana to trace a bold pivot from corporate certainty to building Caregiver Sathi, a mission grounded in lived experience, practical skills, and the quiet courage to act. The jour...
E165 | Who Am I Making Invisible | Change Makers - Vishal Talreja
E165 | Change Makers Series - Ft. Vishal TalrejaStart with a quiet truth: change that lasts rarely shouts. It begins with seeing what we’ve trained ourselves to ignore—poverty on the commute, a child shut down in class, a system r...
E164 | Dignity by Design | Change Makers - Soumita Basu
Change rarely waits for permission, and Soumita Basu didn’t either. After losing most of her mobility, she refused to hand over her identity to illness and instead asked one practical question each day: What can I still do? That mindset led her...
E163| Year-End Voices Of Inspiration | IST Community Members
Community voices reflect on a year of purpose, passion, and the future of work, sharing the habits and moments that changed how they live and lead. We co-create bold themes for 2026, from thriving in the AI era to authentic health and financial...
E162 | Leading Simply, Staying Human - Leadership for a Complex Age | Rajneesh Singh
What if the most powerful leadership tool isn’t a metric or a model, but the decision to be simply human? That’s the throughline of our conversation with Rajneesh “RS” Singh—factory-floor HR leader turned media CHRO turned co-founder of SimplyH...
E161 | Leading with Influence | Gauri Seshadri
The moment you forget your own name on stage can define you—or free you. We sit down with Gauri Seshadri, a global leader at Toastmasters International, to explore how a shaky first step turned into a career built on clarity, connection, and se...
