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186 episodes
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...
E160 | Life by Design | Navyug Mohnot
What if you treated your life like a design project, not a rigid plan? We sit down with Navyug, a transformation coach and life design educator, to unpack a practical way to build your fut...
E159 | Don't Chase your career. Coach It. | Shyam Sadasivan
Career growth doesn’t have to look like a ladder to the top. We unpack what it means to build a lattice—moving sideways, going deeper, and sometimes stepping down to step forward—with practical tools you can use today. With coach and speaker Sh...
E158 | The Playbook of High Performance | Anindya Dutta
We explore the habits that make success repeatable: focus on the moment, remove ceilings, and bring your best every day. Stories from sport and business show how to turn uncertainty into an edge, lead diverse teams, and build cultures that outl...
E157 | Joy of Giving P2 | Venkat Krishnan
Rejection can bruise the ego—or it can build the roadmap. We sit down with Venkat to unpack why the best salespeople talk less, listen more, and treat every “no” as free R&D. That simple shift—separating the rejection of an idea from the wo...
E157 | Joy of Giving P1 | Venkat Krishnan
What if success and significance weren’t opposites but the same metric—impact? That question runs through our conversation with Venkat Krishnan, the quiet builder behind platforms like GiveIndia and DaanUtsav, which have helped millions find cl...
E156 | Roots. Reforms. AI. Prof. Rao on India’s Educational Future P2 | Prof. V Ramgopal Rao
Curiosity drives learning in different ways across the globe. For students in developed countries, passion guides their educational journey, while those in developing nations like India often prioritize job security over personal interests. Pro...
E156 | Roots. Reforms. AI. Prof. Rao on India’s Educational Future P1 | Prof. V Ramgopal Rao
What does it take to transform India's higher education system? Professor V. Ramgopal Rao brings a unique authority to this question, having journeyed from a Telugu-medium school in rural Telang...
E155 | A Journey of Possibility, Purpose, and Portfolio Careers | Maj. Pallavi Shivanna
What does it take to break barriers as one of the first 300 women officers in the Indian Army? Major Pallavi Shivanna shares her remarkable journey from a small-town girl in Mysore to becoming an Army officer, leadership coach, and mental healt...
E154 | Building Founding Fuel | Indrajit Gupta
Indrajit Gupta shares his journey from advertising to journalism to entrepreneurship, highlighting how career pivots often require intuitive leaps rather than perfect planning.• Career shifts should be based on solid principles, connect...
