SMART TROPICS

The amount of NO's before that first Yes! Another episode from my 'Mauritius-Mini series' and in this episode, I chat to Bryan Foo-Kune. Bryan is the Director of Fashion Heights, CEO of Play On Line, events owner of the Papi Chulo group and equally part-time DJ. As a man who wears many hats, Bryan lays out his thinking process behind all the business ventures he has tapped into, includ...

Four years later, Ornella walks us through her participation at the Miss Mauritius pageant which she went on winning. In this intimate and quite candid chat, we also discuss: 09:17 -Her marriage & life as a new mum of 23 years old13:00 - Dealing with Mum Guilt17:27 - How she, as a public figure on a small island, feels about showing her baby publicly21:56 - Her battle against sexual abuse and...

Co-founder of Yhangry, Siddhi Mithal, took ‘Demand-Supply’ out of textbooks and actually applied it👩🏻‍🍳🍽️ Former credit trader at Barclays, Siddhi passionately explained how she, along with Heinin Zhang, came up with Yhangry. From the insane cooking classes they hosted non-stop during the pandemic to eventually quitting their corporate jobs, going on Dragon’s Den, completing the Google first fe...

Rahul and Sushank met on Tinder in 2017 and fast-forward six years later, they are now married-happily married. In their words, happiness is after all a choice. This was one unfiltered episode where we discuss: When they realised they have an attraction for the same sex How they both had their Coming Out-The unfolding of their story to their marriage in the UK The positivity and (brutal) negativit...

In conversation with Founder of Millennial Money UK. We talk Money & Managing Finances and some of our Best & Worst investment decisions. We also discuss the current economic realities and how to best optimise our finances. *Disclosure: This conversation engages our personal views and does not represent our respective firms or place of work. Thanks for listening! You can find me here on: Y...

"My relationship with God is no one's business." As a modern muslim woman who shows herself publicly on social media platforms, Nabeela opens up on her experience with hate and trolls from the online community. We also discuss her exciting and demanding job as a Bullion Trader in Australia and how she moved 4 countries in her early 20s. Thanks for listening! You can find me here on: Youtube https:...

"I will regret this for the rest of my life if I don't ask." In a candid conversation with Shivani Pau, host of the Millennial Mind podcast, she recounts how she jumped on a perhaps lifetime opportunity to ask Steven Bartlett, to be on her podcast when she was accompanying her auntie Reshma Saujani. The phrase “If you don’t ask, you don’t get” may get old and sound cliche but put int...

This week, I’m talking to Shikha-a pharmacist and social media educator, to find out about the field of pharmacy, often wrongly preconceived as an industry meant to only collect prescriptions and dispense medicines. We also discuss women's vs men's approach in addressing their medical concerns. Did you know that even men can suffer of breast cancer? That was my new fact of the day.  I hope...