Reverse and Onward

Sangeetha and me met on Twitter (now X) and I decided to follow her. Let me say, I am one of her thousands of followers in twitter. I follow her for her insights for living a healthy life and have also consulted her. I requested her for a podcast show and we got talking !This is the second episode of a 2 Part series and is rather special to me as I have also spoken about my own experience in metab...

Sangeetha and me met on Twitter and I decided to follow her. Let me say, I am one of her thousands of followers in twitter. I follow her for her insights for living a healthy life and have also consulted her. I requested her for a podcast show and we got talking ! This episode has golden nuggets of insights on reclaiming back metabolic health and living a healthy life. A must watch! Sangeetha Aiye...

Mugdha Pradhan , a Functional Nutritionist, TEDx speaker, and recipient of the 40 over 40 award, is the driving force behind iThrive. Despite holding a Master’s degree in Food Science and Nutrition, her health took a downturn in 2019. This challenging period led her to the world of Functional Medicine, marking a pivotal turning point in her life. Armed with a combination of modern functional medic...

Ajay Naqvi and I date back to our days at graduation. Though we were in different courses and separate academic years, we connected well and kept in touch through the years. Ajay is an Advertising Chief turned organic Blueberry farmer and is now based in Romania for the last few years. Having run a unique Pre-order, Direct-to-Home, Fresh organic blueberry business, his brand – the Blue Renaissance...

Dr Usha Sachdeva started her career as a demonstrator in Physiology at AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) in the year 1969. Only involved in teaching and research, she continued there as faculty since 1971 and took a premature retirement in 2003. She completed her MD in 1971 and her Ph. D in 1985 and embarked on the next phase of her professional life shifting to Bahrain after retirin...

A Thought Leader, AI and Digital Revolutionary, Entrepreneurial Visionary, Inspirational Leader and Sustainability Evangelist. Introducing Rohit Adlakha, ex-Chief Digital and Information Officer at Wipro Limited and Business Head at HOLMES™️ (Wipro's Artificial Intelligence platform). With over 15 years of leadership experience, he is a Board member at the School of Inspired Leadership, a vang...

Ritu is a 2x tech entrepreneur…Formerly the Founder & CEO of a digital healthcare start-up called Obino, a fitness junkie, and a person, who like most of us, loves junk food, especially Pringles! Ritu has chased corporate dreams, branched off, and decided to bloom & grow in the start-up world. She successfully exited her first start-up and is now driving her 2nd dream, an Emotion Ai initia...

Anuradha Rohit or Anu as we can call her is the girl next door – well that’s exactly what she is! She’s been my neighbor in the same condominium for the last few years and that’s how I got acquainted with her and witnessed her journey of transformation. She is someone who you would find running day after day and lifting weights at the gym. Her commitment to herself is commendable. For me, each one...

The 6th episode of the Reverse and Onward - the Satya-Su episode, brings together two different perspectives - On one end there is Satya Puppala, a Tech Executive and an ace marathoner who works for a global Tech Giant and is based out of Dallas in the United States of America. He shares his experience resorting to fitness for tackling depression. On the other hand, we have Suvarchala Vardhan - a...

I chanced upon getting to know Colonel Gautam Guha a few years back in 2020 when he was at his best sharing his learnings and impacting lives.  Col Gautam Guha is an Infantry Officer from the Indian Army of the 1990 NDA batch. Like any other military man, Gautam had served in varied operational locations throughout his service including the lofty heights of Siachen Glacier, and also served on...

I have known Sandeep since my college days, and we have been close friends for close to three decades now! Sandeep, who is a fitness enthusiast, was instrumental in inspiring me to write this book. I decided to launch a podcast first and the book is in the baking! Over the years, I have always seen Sandeep follow a very disciplined life and fitness has always been an integral part of it. He is a m...

Deepa D’Souza is a certified Hatha and Yin yoga teacher whose unique perspective has been shaped by her incredibly diverse background. She comes from a multi-faith family and has been exposed to diverse cultures through her extensive travels and her time living in India, Singapore, and London. These experiences have helped mould her thinking and have taught her valuable lessons in the importance o...

Unraveling an Iron Man...When I first talked to Hetal for this podcast, he was already a Half-IronMan. As he had promised me then, he completed the FULL IRONMAN in August 2022 and now adorns the title for life. He plans to climb Mount Everest among many other audacious dreams..... Hetal is someone I have always admired for his passion for achieving a never-ending list of milestones in life. ...

Shivnath or Shiv as we call him is in a Sales and GTM leadership role at Deloitte. I had interacted for this episode with Shiv when he was leading Partnerships for Persistent for Asia Pacific previously.  He lives with a condition called spondylitis and he's really been inspirational in finding a balance on how to live with it and get better with the passage of time and that's exactly what in...